truncheon
nounEtymology
From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
- derived from truncus
- derived from *troncionem✻
- inherited from tronchoun
Definitions
A short staff, a club
A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
- with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise
A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police…
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.
- The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon.
A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear…
A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
- Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…].
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The shaft of a spear.
A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
- Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground
A penis.
- 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
To strike with a truncheon.
- If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out
The neighborhood
- neighborbludgeon
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for truncheon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA