The cudgel was basically a specialized club used as an instrument of punishment or as a weapon. Cudgels were generally
shorter than Quarterstaffs with a weighted, rounded end (it wasn't uncommon to have the end of the cudgel bound with metal,
wire, or spiked through with nails). Slave drivers, constabulary officials, and others in similar positions where quick "discipline"
was a must carried cudgels.