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Truncheon   /trˈəntʃɪn/   Listen
noun
Truncheon  n.  
1.
A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. "With his truncheon he so rudely struck."
2.
A baton, or military staff of command. "The marshal's truncheon nor the judges robe."
3.
A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.


verb
Truncheon  v. t.  To beat with a truncheon.





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"Truncheon" Quotes from Famous Books



... below Clym's secluded dwelling lay a hamlet where lived one of the two constables who preserved the peace in the parish of Alderworth, and Wildeve went straight to the constable's cottage. Almost the first thing that he saw on opening the door was the constable's truncheon hanging to a nail, as if to assure him that here were the means to his purpose. On inquiry, however, of the constable's wife he learnt that the constable was not at home. Wildeve said ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... top of their sand-bag mounds. A fair, handsome Staff officer, the younger of the two men who had accompanied the Colonel, went by at a tearing gallop, mounted on a fine grey charger, and followed by an orderly, while the pot-hat and truncheon of a scared native constable emerged timidly from the gaping jaws of a rusty water-cistern, long dismissed from Hospital use, and exiled to the open with other rubbish waiting transference to the scrap-heap; and far ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... therefore I threw out some things to them, viz., a knife fastened to a piece of board, and a glass bottle corked up with some beads in it, which they took up, and seemed well pleased. They often struck their left breast with their right hand, and as often held up a black truncheon over their heads, which we thought was a token of friendship, wherefore we did the like. And when we stood in towards their shore, they seemed to rejoice; but when we stood off, they frowned, yet kept us company in their proas, still pointing to the shore. About five o'clock we ...
— Early Australian Voyages • John Pinkerton
... their instruction. Plutarch (Cicero, 5) mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage. Aesopus made a last appearance in 55 B.C.—-when Cicero tells us that he was advanced in years—on the occasion of the splendid games given by Pompey ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... dressed for him by a Hindu assistant apothecary who lectured him on brotherly love with interlarded excerpts from Carlyle done into Hindustani. But the climax came when a native policeman poked him in the ribs with a truncheon and ordered him ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy


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