Noun:

வளை தடி, கனத்த தண்டம்,

cudgel's Usage Examples:

The only effect of this threat was that Johnson reiterated the charge of forgery in the most contemptuous terms, and walked about, during some time, with a cudgel.

"At his side were his accomplices, men ready for anything, whose only hopes were bound up with his fortunes, such as Morny and Rouher; his paid publicists, such as Romieu the originator of the "red spectre"; his cudgel-bearers, the "Ratapoils" immortalized by Daumier, who terrorized the republicans.

Perhaps it's another ruddy great cudgel to beat Neo Labor with.

He smashed the cudgel into the Toller's head once, twice, three times.

The attack was carried out by three masked males using cudgels studded with nails.

"In gratitude we ought to take the cudgels and wave his guitar like a flag after some private conquest, screaming at the sky.

The traditional Irish shillelagh or cudgel is one example of a weapon made with this wood.

The coward placed a very thick cudgel beside him for protection.

I had with me a short stout cudgel and a long knife.

As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel his shoulders heaved in the effort to draw the air into his lungs.

According to James Heath in his Flagellum, " he was more famous for his exercises in the fields than in the schools, being one of the chief match-makers and players at football, cudgels, or any other boisterous game or sport.

At his side were his accomplices, men ready for anything, whose only hopes were bound up with his fortunes, such as Morny and Rouher; his paid publicists, such as Romieu the originator of the "red spectre"; his cudgel-bearers, the "Ratapoils" immortalized by Daumier, who terrorized the republicans.

That unknown quantity is the spirit of the army, that is to say, the greater or lesser readiness to fight and face danger felt by all the men composing an army, quite independently of whether they are, or are not, fighting under the command of a genius, in two--or three-line formation, with cudgels or with rifles that repeat thirty times a minute.

Synonyms:

bastinado, club, shillelagh, shillalah,

Antonyms:

stay in place, bottom out, fall back, divide, spread,