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Definition of Bludgeon
1. Verb. Overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club. "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas"
2. Noun. A club used as a weapon.
3. Verb. Strike with a club or a bludgeon. "The fighter managed to bludgeon his opponent"
Definition of Bludgeon
1. n. A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.
Definition of Bludgeon
1. Noun. A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end. ¹
2. Verb. To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club. ¹
3. Verb. To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bludgeon
1. to hit with a club [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bludgeon
Literary usage of Bludgeon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Land of the Long Night by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1899)
"MY GUIDE KILLS Two WITH HIS bludgeon. — A VISITING TRIP WITH A LAPP ... Then,
brandishing his bludgeon, he said fiercely, " I will make short work of some ..."
2. American law reports annotated (1920)
"The record fails to show the size or weight of the pistol, or that any injury
was inflicted on Phillips from its use as a bludgeon, except the accidental ..."
3. Nineteen Beautiful Years, Or, Sketches of a Girl's Life by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1886)
"bludgeon CRITICISM. BY GAIL HAMILTON. Nineteen Beautiful Years. This is a book
purporting to give faithful "sketches of a girl's life"—a very unimportant ..."
4. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"... as if he were a rapier-man rather than a bludgeon-man. So, by degrees, the
Sunday dinner came to its end, combative and rich in irritations, ..."
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