truncheon
noun
the club carried by a police officer; billy.
truncheoned
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past participleof truncheon.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof truncheon.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
truncheonnounthe club carried by a police officer; billy.
Example Sentences
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Fancy finding a real bar whence drinks may be obtained! and, joy of joys, fancy stepping out of the hotel into the arms of a live, white, helmeted, buttoned, truncheoned Bobby!
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
