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ˈcudgel-ˌplay
[lit. play of cudgels.]
The playing or wielding of cudgels; the art of combat with cudgels; a contest with cudgels.
1636T. Randall in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 19 What is the Barriers, but a Courtly way Of our more downe-right sport the Cudgell-play? 1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux Orient. 191 No small fools at the use of the Staff or Cudgil-play. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. ii, Immense riches, which he used to squander away at back-sword, quarter-staff, and cudgel-play.
Hence ˈcudgel-ˌplayer, ˈcudgel-ˌplaying.
1711Budgell Spect. No. 161 ⁋3 A Ring of Cudgel-Players, who were breaking one another's Heads. 1717Lady M. W. Montague Lett. xxxiv. I. 122 As natural to them as cudgel playing or football to our British swains. 1826Scott in Croker Papers (1884) I. xi. 318 When I was a cudgel player, a sport at which I was once an ugly customer. 1859Smiles Self-Help 62 Drew..while at Cawsand..won a prize for cudgel-playing. |