cudgel
21Cudgel (horse) — Cudgel Sire Broomstick Grandsire Ben Brush Dam Eugenia Burch Damsire Ben Strome Sex Stallion …
22Cudgel play — Cudgel Cudg el (k?j ?l), n. [OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.] A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any… …
23cudgel your brain/brains — informal + old fashioned : to think very hard : to rack your brain I cudgeled my brains for a solution to the problem. • • • Main Entry: ↑brain cudgel your brain/brains see ↑brain, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑cudgel …
24cudgel one's brain — ► cudgel one s brain think hard about a problem. Main Entry: ↑cudgel …
25cudgel one's brains — To think hard • • • Main Entry: ↑cudgel …
26cudgel your brains — cudgel your ˈbrains idiom (old fashioned, BrE) to think very hard • I had to cudgel my brains to remember her name. Main entry: ↑cudgelidiom …
27cudgel one's brain — (or brains) think hard about a problem …
28Cudgel War — The Club War (also Cudgel War, Finnish Nuijasota, Swedish Klubbekriget) was a 1596/97 peasant uprising in the kingdom of Sweden against exploitation by nobility and military in what is today Finland. The name of the uprising derives from the fact …
29cudgel one's brain — Brit. think hard about a problem. → cudgel …
30cudgel one's brains — idi cudgel one s brains, to try hard to comprehend or remember …