Past tense of cudgel; beat with a cudgel or struck repeatedly with a club.
From the verb form of 'cudgel' with the regular past tense ending '-ed' added to create the past tense.
English has two spellings for this word depending on whether you're American (cudgeled) or British (cudgelled), a reminder that these spelling rules were standardized only a few centuries ago.
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