The guard's truncheon hit air. Off balance, he regained his posture to see a metal-mesh rubbish bin flying towards him.
Source: tatoeba (327511)
Truncheon
//ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən//
Synonyms for "truncheon" (113 found)
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Translations
46 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- полицейска палка noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Czech
1 entries- pendrek noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Danish
2 entries- batong noun (short club)
- knippel noun (short club)
Dutch
2 entries- knuppel noun (short club)
- wapenstok noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Finnish
4 entries- kapula noun (short club)
- keppi noun (short club)
- pamppu noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
- patukka noun (short club)
French
1 entries- matraque noun (short club)
Galician
1 entries- porra noun (short club)
German
3 entries- Gummiknüppel noun (short club)
- Schlagstock noun (short club)
- Schlagstock noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Greek
1 entries- γκλοπ noun (short club)
Hungarian
1 entries- gumibot noun (short club)
Irish
1 entries- smachtín noun (short club)
Macedonian
1 entries- пендрек noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- batong noun (short club)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- batong noun (short club)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- صوپه noun (short club)
- كوتك noun (short club)
- چوماق noun (short club)
Polish
4 entries- buława noun (short club)
- gumowa pałka policyjna noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
- uderzać pałką verb (strike with a truncheon)
- uderzyć pałką verb (strike with a truncheon)
Portuguese
1 entries- cassetete noun (short club)
Russian
2 entries- дубинка noun (short club)
- резиновая дубинка noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Spanish
2 entries- porra noun (short club)
- porra noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Swedish
4 entries- batong noun (short club)
- knölpåk noun (short club)
- kommandostav noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
- käpp noun (short club)
Turkish
1 entries- cop noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
Ukrainian
4 entries- гумова палиця noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
- гумовий кийок noun (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
- дубинка noun (short club)
- кийок noun (short club)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Twelve gentlemen of the Horse Guards were empanelled, having unanimously chosen Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop, for their foreman in the jury.
Source: tatoeba (10937874)
with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise
Source: wiktionary
One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds.
Source: wiktionary
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