Cudgel

Noun

 * 1) a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon
 * The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly at the inmates, the threat to swing glinted in his eye.

Synonyms

 * club

Verb

 * 1) to strike someone with a cudgel
 * The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.

Adjectives
short; heavy; thick; bloody; bludgeoning; murderous.

Verbs
attack with—; awe with—; beat with—; belabor with—; brandish—; combat with—; cross—s; defend with—; resist—; scar with—; shake—; smite with—; strike with —; swing—; take up—; terrify with—; wave—;  wield—;  —descends;  —fells; —stuns.

Thesaurus
baste, bastinado, bat, baton, beat, belabor, belt, billy, billy club, birch, blackjack, bludgeon, buffet, cane, club, clue, cosh, cowhide, cue, cut, drub, ferule, flagellate, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hickory, horsewhip, indication, inkling, intimation, knobkerrie, knout, lace, lash, lay on, mace, nightstick, notion, paddle, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quarterstaff, rattan, rawhide, rod, sandbag, scourge, shillelagh, smite, spank, spontoon, strap, stripe, suggestion, swinge, switch, telltale, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, war club, whale, whip, whop, wind

Etymology
From (Southwestern dialect) kuggel, from Old English cycgel, from  'ball' (compare West Frisian kûgel:, Dutch kogel: 'bullet, ball',   Kugel), diminutive of. More at cog.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: сопа
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: fütykös,, furkósbot, bunkósbot
 * Korean: 쇠몽둥이 (soe-mongdungI), 철퇴 (鐵槌, cheoltoe)


 * Old Norse: klubba
 * Russian: дубинка
 * Serbo-Croatian: batina, toljaga,  močuga,  buzdovan
 * Swedish: klubba, påk

Anagrams

 * cludge