truncheon
the club carried by a police officer; billy.
a staff representing an office or authority; baton.
the shattered shaft of a spear.
Obsolete. cudgel; bludgeon.
Archaic. to beat with a club.
Origin of truncheon
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How to use truncheon in a sentence
Lukashenko responded by dispatching heavily armed security forces who beat protesters with truncheons and rifle butts, and hauled them into miserable, jam-packed prisons.
How a Belarusian Teacher and Stay-at-Home Mom Came to Lead a National Revolt | Vivienne Walt | February 25, 2021 | TimeLudmila says that she attacked a policeman bludgeoning an elderly woman with a truncheon, but in vain—the woman died.
Ukraine’s Bloody Crackdown Enters Its Third Day | Oleg Shynkarenko | February 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTtruncheon spoke in a low voice, and with the deepest and most respectful melancholy.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's | William Makepeace ThackerayAnd she shot one glance at Fitzroy, who shot another at the great truncheon, who held down his eyes.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's | William Makepeace ThackerayThe gesture is mainly pride, but there is misgiving in it, too: the knowledge that the pen is not as mighty as the truncheon.
Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. Lucas
I think that he actually had provided himself with a truncheon to meet all the emergencies of supreme command.
The dagger and the night-stick (the latter a stout truncheon weighted with lead) were doing the work, and effectively, too.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel Sutphen
British Dictionary definitions for truncheon
/ (ˈtrʌntʃən) /
mainly British a short thick club or cudgel carried by a policeman
a baton of office: a marshal's truncheon
archaic a short club or cudgel
the shaft of a spear
(tr) to beat with a truncheon
Origin of truncheon
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