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Shillelagh vs Cudgel - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between shillelagh and cudgel

is that shillelagh is a wooden (especially oaken) club ending with a large knob while cudgel is a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

As a verb cudgel is

to strike with a cudgel.

shillelagh

English

Alternative forms

* shillelah, shillalah, shillala * shillaly, shillely * shillalagh

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wooden (especially oaken) club ending with a large knob.
  • Any cudgel.

    • See also

    * blackthorn

    References

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    cudgel

    English

    Noun

    (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.

    Synonyms

    * club * singlestick

    Verb

  • 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).

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