v. [f. BE- + CUDGEL v.] To cudgel soundly.
1591. G. Fletcher, Russe Commw. (1856), 67. You shall see … their shinnes thus becudgelled and bebasted every morning with a piteous crie.
1849. Weekly Dispatch, 16 Dec., 7/3. Contrasting the decisions of their immense, wealthy, industrious, intelligent populations with the bought and be-cudgelled verdicts of Thetford, Stamford, Woodstock, and such barracoons of white niggers.
1881. Duffield, Don Quix., III. 34. To think I will return to mine [home] until I have becudgelled Don Quixote, is vain.
