The ruffian was armed with a bludgeon.    From LearnThat.org. 

He adds that the White House had to "bludgeon" the press to see reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday Roundup] Reference

It functions as a kind of bludgeon wielded on several sides of the school wars.    From Wordnik.com.  [June « 2006 « Bill Ayers] Reference

BAGGS: I tend to kind of bludgeon people over the head with that kind of communication.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2007] Reference

BAGGS (through voice synthesizer): I tend to kind of bludgeon people over the head with that kind of communication.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference

Ngonyama said the challenge facing South Africa was to come up with strategies which would "bludgeon" poverty and unemployment.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Asked by Chamber President Paul Guzzi whether the new regulations were a "bludgeon,".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily News Transcript Homepage RSS] Reference

It's not a "bludgeon" of the right nor left, but accords a special status in our collective consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

The protestant flail was a kind of bludgeon, so jointed as to fold together, and lie concealed in the pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference

IF and WHEN an adoptee decides to "bludgeon" anyone (LMAO!) is when they should be dealt with under existing laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

"Then let each state his case with bludgeon or dagger.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

In the end I had to bludgeon him to death with a shovel.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOR SCIENCE!] Reference

The persuader is a short, heavy bludgeon with a nail-studded head.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference

He swore a terrible oath and stepped back to seize the heavy bludgeon on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

"The ANC would bludgeon almost all the other parties into accepting their proposals.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Day Dawns] Reference

They know the venal ruffianism of the fist and bludgeon, as well as that of the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

It is undeniable that Germany is now directed by hysteric stupidity wielding a bludgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

He worked best with a bludgeon which, as it did brute's work, might be brutishly handled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Patricia gasped, "Oh, no," dropped her bludgeon and sank into a chair, her head in her hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Man] Reference

Granted, if you will, that half the nation is at heart against the stupidity and the bludgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

Smokey, Curtis, Marvin, Al – they were masters of the gentle caress, not the sweaty bludgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt Henshaw (No 871)] Reference

The Doctor espoused the moral hocussing system, and Feargus took up the bludgeon for physical force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference

 You had to bludgeon them to get them off me because they kept clawing me and begging me to pet them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lenin's Paintings] Reference

With a bound, Kenkenes seized the youth by the ankles and swung him like an animate bludgeon over his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

If I do get lost, it might be for a paragraph, but then I have to bludgeon it into spontaneity until my arms ache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kimberly Brooks: The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould] Reference

"With bludgeon or dagger!" echoed the excited voice of the morio, whose appearance had undergone a transformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

It's an ugly piece of bludgeon work, I admit, but not convincing to anyone who has read the book of which you speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891] Reference

This allows Microsoft to learn of their future plans and provides a potential cudgel for Microsoft to bludgeon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antitrust And Common Sense] Reference

It is a bludgeon in their campaign to overturn Democratic Party majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Singer: From Nine to Ten and the Commemoration of 9/11] Reference

Carrying a candle in one hand and a great bludgeon in the other, he examined every room, every closet, the attic, and the cellar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Aryaman stalked about with a terrible bludgeon furnished with sharp spikes, and Mitra stood there with a discus sharp as a razor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Then Nakula, steedless and carless and armourless, O monarch, quickly alighting from his car, stood, armed with a spiked bludgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

I had argued that this would be nothing but a race case, that this word would be used to bludgeon justice right out of this courtroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race Wars] Reference

He immediately seized his pistols to defend himself, when he was struck on the back of the head with a bludgeon and rendered insensible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884] Reference

He held in his right hand a tremendous bludgeon, with which he amused himself by rapping on the head every one who came within his reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference