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A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLUDGEON
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bludgeon
 n.  short heavy club, usually of wood; heavy-headed weapon
Classic Sentence:
1  Leblanc's head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a bar of iron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
2  Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
3  An ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
4  She spoke in her soft, seemingly gentle way, but Clifford felt she was hitting him on the head with a bludgeon.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  Now I have come round to you, and on my way I was attacked by a rough with a bludgeon.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
6  In the mad scramble he was aware that the color sergeant flinched suddenly, as if struck by a bludgeon.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
7  It seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head with the full swing of a bludgeon.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
8  A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
9  The agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and poignards.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION
Example Sentence:
1  Attacked by Dr. Moriarty, Holmes used his walking stick as a bludgeon to defend himself.