Someone who attacks or beats another person with a bludgeon or other heavy weapon.
From 'bludgeon' plus the agent suffix '-er.' This term has been used since at least the 17th century to describe someone who uses violence with heavy weapons.
In medieval crime records, 'bludgeoner' was an actual job classification—literally a professional person who would beat people up for hire, which shows how different crime was centuries ago!
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