cudgel

there was no one else to take up the cudgels on their behalf .

McCulloch raised his cudgel and lunged at him.

The local newspapers have taken up the cudgels on behalf of the woman who was unfairly dismissed from her job because she was pregnant.

He used a cudgel to defend himself against the attackers.

The robber threatened the shopkeeper with a cudgel.

The villagers carried cudgels to protect their crops from wild animals.

She felt a sense of security holding the cudgel in her hand.

The detective found a blood-stained cudgel at the crime scene.

The knight wielded his cudgel with great skill in battle.

The old man leaned on his cudgel as he walked down the road.

The thug threatened to cudgel anyone who dared to oppose him.

The shepherd used a cudgel to guide his flock of sheep.

The hooligan swung his cudgel wildly, causing chaos in the street.

Now, if you will put up your cudgels for a moment...Oh, Spratt.

And is poor Ethel to be the cudgel by which you fight your foes?

Is it like cudgel playing or other sportful forms of bloodshed?

It is always I who have to take up the cudgels in his defence.

And that gives you a very powerful cudgel to disrupt a community you want to.

He cudgels his brains for ideas.

His cudgel quivered in the air.

As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel his shoulders heaved in the effort to draw the air into his lungs.

Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without hitting upon the real object which the detective had in view.

OK. Extra credit quiz time The cudgel was said to belonged to the great King Yu… anyone remember him?