Truncheon

Quick meaning: Truncheon is a noun meaning A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

Meaning

A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

More Meanings

1. A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
2. (euphemistic) A penis.
3. (transitive) To strike with a truncheon.
4. (obsolete) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
5. (obsolete) The shaft of a spear.
6. (obsolete) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

Example Sentences

with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise

If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out

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

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

Word Forms

• truncheons
• truncheoning
• truncheoned

Synonyms for truncheon

Depending on context, synonyms include nightstick, baton, stick, billy, billystick.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nightstick, billy, stick, billystick, baton, rod.

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