Truncheon

//ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

    "with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise"

  2. 2
    a short stout club used primarily by policemen wordnet
  3. 3
    A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.

    "Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does."

  4. 4
    A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance. obsolete

    "Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…]."

  5. 5
    The shaft of a spear. obsolete
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  1. 6
    A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. obsolete

    "Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground"

  2. 7
    A penis. euphemistic

    "Then, being on his knees between my legs, he drew up his shirt and bared all his hairy thighs, and stiff staring truncheon, red-topt and rooted into a thicket of curls"

Verb
  1. 1
    To strike with a truncheon. transitive

    "If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.

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