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To take up cudgels for
Cudgel Cudg"el (k?j"?l), n. [OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.] A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. --Bunyan. Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).

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- January 2021. Naveen, P. (21 November 2015). "Madhya Pradesh: Son takes up cudgels for cash-for-query stung MP | India News - Times of India". The Times of...
- ****isting others, the heroic spirit of being ready to take up cudgels for a just cause without caring for one's safety, the attitude of s****ing advancement...
- Chameli spots the duo in a restaurant. The respective families soon take up cudgels against their wards and make it clear that they won't allow inter-caste...
- BJP Govt". Daijiworld Media. Retrieved 24 January 2013. "Youth Cong takes up cudgels against BJP govt; organizes vehicle rally". Mangalore Today. Retrieved...
- crime, Ashwini takes up cudgels against a dreaded gangster named J.K. Verma. He arrests a key henchman of J.K. named Yashwant in order to decimate J.K.'s...
- 1970s, I find myself cross on behalf of women, and rather inclined to take up cudgels. What has swa**** me are not statistics or arguments but real stories...
- earlier, "oak wood used to make cudgels" (1670s), from Shillelagh, town and barony in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, famous for its oaks" Chouinard 2007. Colum...
- Archived 26 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine Daily India.com "Tory Peer takes up cudgels for Gurkha hero" "Train named after Gurkha hero Tulbahadur Pun"...
- received acclaim. According to Raja Sen of Rediff.com, "Amitabh Bachchan, a retired lawyer with bipolar disorder, takes up cudgels on behalf of the girls,...
- asks Narasimha to give up the ahimsa-way he had followed all his life and take up cudgels against S****aSimha's misdeeds. Narasimha takes over the role...