cudgelling

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verb

To strike with a cudgel.“The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.”
To exercise (one's wits or brains).

noun

A beating with a cudgel.

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bastinado bastinade caning pummelling drubbing whacking pummeling battering clobbering cuffing clobber bludgeoning suggilation scourging fustigation bludgeonry

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