"sockdolager" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1831, James Kirke Paulding, Lion of the West:",
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          "text": "\"I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,\"",
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          "text": "The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer.",
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          "text": "“If punching parrots on the beak wasn't too painful for pleasure, I'd land you a sockdolager on the muzzle that ud lay you out till Christmas.”",
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        "A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites."
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