British past tense of cudgel; beat with a cudgel or struck repeatedly with a club.
British spelling of 'cudgeled,' following the British convention of doubling the final consonant before adding '-ed' to one-syllable words.
The American version drops one 'l' (cudgeled) while British keeps it (cudgelled)—a tiny spelling difference that shows how the two English languages diverged 200 years ago.
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