Word of the Day for Thursday, January 18, 2007
cudgel \KUH-juhl\, noun:
1. A short heavy stick used as a weapon; a club.
2. To beat with or as if with a cudgel.
Whatever had been making her dogs uneasy, she'd have to handle it on her own. Rosie Bowe took a heavy piece of firewood as a cudgel and followed them.
-- Jim Crace, Signals of Distress
The Grand Vizier Kuprili of Constantinople, for example, . . . closed the city's coffeehouses. Anyone caught drinking coffee was soundly cudgeled.
-- Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds
Cudgel derives from Old English cycgel.
cudgel \KUH-juhl\, noun:
1. A short heavy stick used as a weapon; a club.
2. To beat with or as if with a cudgel.
Whatever had been making her dogs uneasy, she'd have to handle it on her own. Rosie Bowe took a heavy piece of firewood as a cudgel and followed them.
-- Jim Crace, Signals of Distress
The Grand Vizier Kuprili of Constantinople, for example, . . . closed the city's coffeehouses. Anyone caught drinking coffee was soundly cudgeled.
-- Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds
Cudgel derives from Old English cycgel.
