Drub vs Cudgel - What's the difference?

Drub is a related term of cudgel.

is that drub is to beat (someone or something) with a stick while cudgel is to strike with a cudgel.

a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

to beat (someone or something) with a stick

to forcefully teach something

to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush

to criticize harshly; to excoriate

(en noun)

A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye.

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.

* Bunyan

He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.

* club * singlestick

To strike with a cudgel.

The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.

* Shakespeare

I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.

To exercise (one's wits or brains).