单词 | bludgeoner |
释义 | bludgeonerbludgeoneern. One who uses, or is armed with, a bludgeon. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > club or stick cudgeller1580 club-man1597 billeter1643 clubster1727 polemana1750 bludgeon-man1797 bludgeonist1811 batman1833 bludgeoner1842 clubber1887 1842 R. Oastler Fleet Papers II. 8 They have set their hired bludgeoners at me. 1852 Blackwood's Mag. 224 Those brutal bludgeoneers..go out..in gangs to poach. 1855 A. Trollope Warden xiv. 219 Old St. Dunstan, with its bell-smiting bludgeoners, has been removed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1842 |
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