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11Scottish sword dances — are ritualistic and combative dances that imitated epic deeds and martial skills and are a familiar feature in Scottish tradition and folklore.Notwithstanding Welsh and English Morris dance, related dances are known in Austria, Germany,… …
12Fustuarium — (a Latin abstraction from the Latin fustis , a branch or rod) was a Roman military form of execution by cudgeling (clubbing), which was imitated by later armies. Since laxness on guard duty or desertion could endanger the entire corps and even… …
13cudgel — cudgeler; esp. Brit., cudgeller, n. /kuj euhl/, n., v., cudgeled, cudgeling, or (esp. Brit.) cudgelled, cudgelling. n. 1. a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club. 2. take up the cudgels, to come to the defense or aid of someone or something.… …
14Mother North — Satyricon Veröffentlichung 1996 Länge 6:26 Genre(s) Black Metal Autor(en) Satyr Album …
15cudgel — [ kʌdʒ(ə)l] noun a short, thick stick used as a weapon. verb (cudgels, cudgelling, cudgelled; US cudgels, cudgeling, cudgeled) beat with a cudgel. Phrases cudgel one s brain Brit. think har …
16beating — n. 1. Striking, drubbing, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, pommeiling, caning, flagellation, pounding, thumping, basting, bastinadoing. 2. Beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing …
17drubbing — n. Beating, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, caning, pounding, flagellation …
18bastinado — I. n. Cudgelling, basting, beating (usually on the soles of the feet). II. v. a. Cudgel, baste, beat (as above) …
19cudgel — I UK [ˈkʌdʒ(ə)l] / US [ˈkʌdʒəl] noun [countable] Word forms cudgel : singular cudgel plural cudgels a short thick stick used for hitting people • take up the cudgels II UK [ˈkʌdʒ(ə)l] / US [ˈkʌdʒəl] verb [transitive] Word forms cudgel : present… …
20cudgel — /ˈkʌdʒəl / (say kujuhl) noun 1. a short, thick stick used as a weapon; a club. –verb (t) (cudgelled or, US, cudgeled, cudgelling or, US, cudgeling) 2. to strike with a cudgel; beat. –phrase 3. cudgel one s brains …
