transitive. To strike or beat with a mallet or hammer; to hammer or pound; (hence) to beat severely.

(transitive) to strike (a person) with this weapon.

to becudgel.

transitive. To beat severely with a cudgel, whip, the fists, etc.; to thrash. Also figurative. Cf. rib-baste, v.

To strike with a baton or truncheon; formerly, to cudgel: see the earlier form batoon, v.

To strike with or as with a flail.

transitive. To beat with a club or as with a club; to knock down or kill with a club.

transitive. To beat or thrash with a stick, cudgel, etc. Cf. baston, v.

transitive. To beat or thrash with a cudgel.

transitive. To beat severely, esp. on or about the ribs. Cf. rib-roast, v.

To cudgel. Obsolete.

To beat with a truncheon, to baton.

To strike sharply with a whip, a thin stick or the like; to lash. Also said of the whip, etc. transitive and absol.

transitive. To strike with a stick or whip, to slash, switch. Also intransitive to strike at.

transitive. To strike with or as with a mace. (In quot. 1634 with play on mace, n.1; cf. 5.)

To beat or strike with a batoon, to thrash with a stick, to cudgel. (See baton, v.)

slang. To beat, cudgel, thrash. (Cf. towel, n. 3.) Also (Australian) with up; also figurative.

transitive. To beat with a quarterstaff.

transitive. To strike with a carriage-pole. Obsolete.

transitive. Nautical. To strike with a handspike. Obsolete.

transitive. To strike with a blackjack (black jack, n.2 5).

transitive. To strike or fell with a bludgeon or similar weapon.

To fell with a blow from a sandbag. Also figurative, to bully or coerce; to criticize or lambaste.

(transitive) to strike with a cosh.

transitive. To hit or club (someone) with a sap (see sap, n.1 4b). Also with up and intransitive in to sap up on (someone).

transitive. To strike or beat (a person) with the butt of a pistol. Also in early use: to threaten (a person) with a pistol.

transitive. To strike with a knuckle-duster.