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Language: Old English
Origin: cycgel

cudgel

 noun
     
Related topics: Weapons
cud‧gel
1 [countable]PMW a short thick stick used as a weapon
2

take up the cudgels (on behalf of somebody/something)

formal to start to fight for an idea that you believe in
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