Cudgel
Cudgel noun - A heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment.
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Dagger and cudgel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dagger" instead a noun "Cudgel".
Dagger
Dagger noun - A short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing.
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Nearby Word: daggered
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In Adultswim.com's online game Death Vegas, there is an unattractive example in Badass Grandma Lourdes, who carries a plunger that separates into a dagger and what seems to be a cudgel with the plunger head on it.
Source: Ninja Maid -
The Assassins' Guild Diary cites the case of Duke Harold of Pseudopolis, whose assassin resorted to a cudgel, length of chain, pistol crossbow, dagger, poison, and ultimately to attaching the man to an anchor, chopping a hole in a frozen river's ice, and pushing him in.
Source: Rasputinian Death
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