cudgel-playn.

Etymology: lit. play of cudgels.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcudgel-ˌplay.

The playing or wielding of cudgels; the art of combat with cudgels; a contest with cudgels.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun]

waster1519

wastership1575

single billeta1625

cudgels1630

quarterstaff1631

cudgel-playa1635

back-sword1699

cudgel-playing1717

hurlbatting1744

single-stick1771

short-staff1775

cudgelling1787

stick fighting1845

stick play1849

back-swording1857

kendo1921

a1635 ‘T. Randall’ in Ann. Dubrensia (1636) sig. C4 What is the Barriers, but a Courtly way Of our more downe right sport, the Cvdgell-play?

1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 191 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. No small fools at the use of the Staff or Cudgil-play.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit i. ii. 7 Immense Riches, which he used to squander away at Back-Sword, Quarter-Staff, and Cudgell-Play.

Derivatives

ˈcudgel-ˌplayer n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun] > practitioner

back-swordman1600

back-sword1656

cudgel-player1711

cudgeller1811

stick player1828

stick fighter1845

stickman1908

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 161. ⁋3 A Ring of Cudgel-Players, who were breaking one another's Heads.

1826 W. Scott in Croker Papers (1884) I. xi. 318 When I was a cudgel player, a sport at which I was once an ugly customer.

ˈcudgel-ˌplaying n.

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