• CUDGEL

1. s. baculum (any stick; baculus is post-classical): fustis (for beating): scipio (σκίπων, σκήπων, for walking; but occasionally used as cudgel, Plaut.). To strike anybody on the head with a cudgel, alicujus caput baculo percutere.

2. v. aliquem fusti verberare; fusti in aliquem animadvertere; aliquem petere baculo (to hit him or strike at him with a cudgel or stick). CUDGELLING; e.g., to get a good cudgelling or beating, male mulcari: to give anybody a good cudgelling, male mulcare aliquem (comical only, probe percutere: bene depexum dare, verberibus or fustibus irrigare aliquem).’