or bludger, subs. (venery).—A thief using violence: spec. a bully; a PONCE (q.v.) attached to a house of ill-fame for the purpose of terrorising victims: cf. BLUDGET.
1852. Blackwood’s Magazine, 224. Those brutal BLUDGEONEERS … go out … in gangs to poach.
1855. A. TROLLOPE, The Warden, xiv., 144. Old St. Dunstan with its smiting BLUDGEONEER has been removed.
1856. H. MAYHEW, The Great World of London, 46. Those who plunder with violence; as … ‘BLUDGERS’ or ‘stick slingers,’ who rob in company with low women.
