A stout stick or staff; a pole, cudgel, etc. Obsolete.

A piece of wood; a stem or branch of a tree, or a portion of one, either in its natural state, or… A stick, esp. a staff, cudgel: cf. plant, n.1 1b…

A short thick stick used as a weapon; a club.

A pole or staff or club used as a weapon; the shaft of a pike or spear. Often staff and sting.

A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) archaic.

A long thin piece of wood held or carried by a person. A staff, club, or cudgel used to hit a person or animal.

A heavy stick or staff for use as a weapon, thin enough at one end to be grasped with the hand, and increasing in thickness and weight towards the…

A short thick staff; a club, a cudgel. Obsolete or archaic except as in 3.

A stout staff; a club, a cudgel; sometimes apparently a spear or spear-shaft.

A staff or stout stick, esp. one used as a weapon; a cudgel, club, truncheon, etc. Cf. baton, n. 1a batoon, n. 1. Now rare.

A warder or truncheon.

A young tree or sapling used as a pole, staff, or cudgel. Irish English (northern) in later use. Now rare except in ash-plant, n.

A stout staff or cudgel; a hooked stick.

A weapon; (in quot. 1440) a club.

A weapon, ? some form of club; in 16th cent. Latin-English Dictionaries, glossing Latin aclys (aclis) a small javelin. Obsolete.

A club or bludgeon.

Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern). A cudgel; a stout staff or walking stick.

A staff, cudgel.

A cudgel, staff, club.

A staff or stick used as a weapon, sometimes also of iron or iron-tipped; a club, cudgel, or truncheon; = baston, n. 2. Obsolete in general…

An ironwood sword or club used among some indigenous South American peoples.

A billet of wood; a stick to beat or throw at anything with.

A stick, cane, or similar weapon used to administer such a blow.

humorously. †Alman comb: see quot.crab-tree comb: a cudgel (as applied to the head). Obsolete. (Cf. comb, v.1 3.)

Originally: a North American Indian stone-headed weapon typically resembling a hatchet or small axe, used for combat, hunting, and as a tool…

A (thick) stick used as a weapon. †single billet n. single stick.

One who or that which strikes or assails; in quots. applied to weapons. slang.

A stout staff or stick used as a weapon, a cudgel, club, truncheon; = baston, n. 2, baton, n. 1.

A cudgel. Obsolete.

a crab-tree club or cudgel.

A stick, cudgel.

A club used as a weapon by American Indians. Now historical.

A weapon of offence.

A stick or cudgel of the wood of the crab-tree.

(The name of) a small ceremonial mace owned by the Corporation of (Kingston upon) Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, said to have been used in…

A short stout stick or club, with one end loaded or thicker and heavier than the other, used as a weapon.

A short club or knobbed stick used (esp. in the past) as a weapon by the indigenous peoples of South Africa. See also knobkerrie, n.

slang. oaken towel, also simply towel, a stick, cudgel (cf. towel, v. 2); lead towel, a bullet.

A stick or cudgel made of the wood of the crab-tree; a crab-stick.

An Irish cudgel of blackthorn or oak.

A wooden club or cosh consisting of a short, heavy stick with a large rounded knob at the end; (often specifically) = knobkerrie, n.

A kind of club, typically of a single piece of hardwood with a ball-shaped head (often set with a sharp piece of stone or metal) or with a stone…

A club.

A wooden club, traditionally used by Australian Aboriginal people as a tool for hunting or a weapon for fighting.

An Aboriginal war-club.

A rounded piece of wood; a staff, cudgel.

A cudgel. Obsolete. rare.

A short flat Maori war club of hard wood, whalebone, or greenstone; (also) a miniature greenstone version of this. Also mere club.

? A small hurlbat.

A short, heavy stick with a large rounded knob at one end, traditionally used as a club or missile (and also as a walking stick) by the indigenous…

A walking stick or cudgel made of the stem of this shrub.

A person who, or (more often) a thing which, beats or thrashes (cf. baste, v.3); esp. a heavy stick, a cudgel. Also: a hard blow given with such a…

spec. dialect (a) A stout stick. (b) A divining-rod (cf. rod, n.1 3c). to work the twig, to use the divining-rod.

A wooden club bent at the striking end. (Morris Austral Eng.)

A stout stick or cudgel, esp. one with a knob at the end. Also more fully alpeen stick. Cf. shillelagh, n.

A bludgeon. U.S. slang (at Yale).

A term applied to various machines and implements. a highwayman's club; a bludgeon; also (U.S.), a policeman's truncheon; see also quot. 1848; also…

a quarter-staff, a cudgel.

A staff; a heavy stick. dialect.

A stout stick, bludgeon or truncheon; a length of metal used as a life-preserver; also (dialect), a stick; a school cane; a caning. under the cosh…

= nulla-nulla, n.

U.S. slang. A club; a short staff. So saps (see quot. 1899).

transferred. Any club or stick; spec. a walking-stick.

Of an angle, edge, or point: Not sharp, obtuse. Of a tool or weapon: Without edge or point. spec. blunt instrument, a loose term covering any…