[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who cudgels; one who plays cudgels.

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1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn donneur de Bastonnades, a cudgeller.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect. (1851), 267. Often lyable to a night-walking cudgeller.

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1811.  Sporting Mag., XXXVIII. 161. Cudgellers, wrestlers, back-sword players.

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