Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
alpeen | a cudgel. [Irish ailpin]. |
ballow | a cudgel. |
baton batoon | a short rod; (verb) to strike with this. |
battero | an alternative reading for BALLOW, a cudgel > BATTEROS. |
blackjack | a kind of COSH; (verb) to hit with a blackjack. |
bludgeon | to strike with a bludgeon. |
club | a heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded in the hand; (verb) to strike with a club. |
clublike | like a club. |
cosh | a bludgeon, truncheon, lead-pipe, piece of flexible tubing filled with metal, or the like, used as a weapon; (verb) to strike with a cosh. |
crabstick | a stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree. |
cudgel | a heavy staff, a club; (verb) to beat with a cudgel > CUDGELED/CUDGELLED. |
flail | a medieval weapon with a spiked iron swingle; an implement for threshing corn; (verb) to strike with a flail. |
kierie kirri | in S. Africa, a stick, club. |
knobkerrie | a short South African knobbed-head club. |
lathee lathi | in India, a heavy stick. |
mace | a club-like weapon; (verb) to attack with this. |
martel | a mediaeval hammer-like weapon with a pointed head; (verb) to make a blow with this. |
maul | a war-club or mace; a heavy wooden hammer or beetle; (verb) to beat with a maul, to handle roughly. |
manrikigusari | a weapon consisting of a series of weights on a chain. |
meri | a war-club. |
morgenstern | a club with a spike-studded head, a morning-star. |
quarterstaff | a long wooden pole with an iron tip, an old weapon of defence > QUARTERSTAFFS or QUARTERSTAVES. |
shillala shillalah shillelagh | an Irish cudgel. |
slungshot | a weight attached to a cord, used as a weapon. |
staff | a wooden pole carried in the hand, primarily for support but usable as a weapon > STAFFS or STAVES. |
taiaha | a long-handled club with a sharp tip. |
truncheon | a club carried by a police officer; (verb) to strike with a truncheon. |
waddy | a kind of war-club used by Australian aborigines; (verb) to strike with a waddy. |