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Truncheon
Definitions
- 1 A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
"with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise"
- 2 a short stout club used primarily by policemen wordnet
- 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 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 The shaft of a spear. obsolete
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- 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"
- 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"
- 1 To strike with a truncheon. transitive
"If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out"
Etymology
From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
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