Bludgeon (Noun)
Meaning
A club used as a weapon.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The officer retrieved the bludgeon from the perpetrator and entered it as evidence.
- A wooden bludgeon with iron bands lay next to the battered body on the pavement.
- Detectives are looking for witnesses to come forward and describe the suspect's bludgeon.
- Cops closed off the alley after a caller reported someone swinging a deadly bludgeon at people passing by.
- On medieval battlefields, men carried spiked clubs that could also double as bludgeons when edged fighting ensued.