cudgel

nuijia

nuija A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye.

Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.

He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and (..) falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.

The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.

I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.