The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cudgel \Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cudgeled or Cudgelled (-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cudgeling or cudgelling.] To beat with a cudgel.
An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog.
--Shak.
To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.
Wiktionary
n. A beating with a cudgel. vb. (present participle of cudgel English)
WordNet
See cudgel
n. a club that is used as a weapon
v. strike with a cudgel
[also: cudgelling, cudgelled]
Usage examples of "cudgelling".
Which said, he resumed his cudgelling of the mule, and laid about him on this side and on that to such purpose that he started him.
Long before the slow processes of country criminal justice could bring him to actual trial, so many misdeeds were brought home to him, from here and there, that he gave the matter up, and not only confessed to the attack on Annie's pocket-book, but to the barn-burning, to which Dab's cudgelling had provoked him.
He had known all day that something was coming, and had been cudgelling his brains finely.
Past the rickety desk at which he had so often sat far into the night, quill in hand, cudgelling his mind for the thoughts, and the words for the thoughts.
He had by dint of cudgelling his brains just thought of the Southampton - St Malo service.
And, lastly, what knight-errant has there been, is there, or will there ever be in the world, not bold enough to give, single-handed, four hundred cudgellings to four hundred officers of the Holy Brotherhood if they come in his way?