Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cudgelling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cudgel \Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cudgeled} or {Cudgelled}
(-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cudgeling} or {cudgelling}.]
To beat with a cudgel.
An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak.
{To cudgel one's brains}, to exercise one's wits.
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