cudgel vs tomahawk

cudgel

verb
  • To strike with a cudgel. 

  • To exercise (one's wits or brains). 

noun
  • Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another. 

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

tomahawk

verb
  • To strike or cut up with a tomahawk. 

  • To perform a tomahawk dunk. 

  • To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it. 

noun
  • A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball. 

  • An ax used by Native American warriors. 

  • A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head. 

  • A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe. 

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