English-Lithuanian translations for cudgel

• vėzdas
  Taip yra todėl, kad ja suteikiamos didelės galios - teisinis vėzdas, su kuriuo galima mušti mažesnes tautas, ir tai gali lemti tik smurtą, karą ir skurdą. This is because it gives the great powers a legal cudgel with which to beat the smaller nations and this can lead only to violence, war and poverty.

Definition of cudgel

• A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon
• Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another
• To strike with a cudgel
• To exercise (one's wits or brains

Examples

• The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates
• The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters

Related words

• cud
• cuddly
• cuddle
• barracuda
• cuddling
• cudweeds
• cudweed
• cuddlesome
• escudo