truncheon

IPA: trˈʌntʃɪn

A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
(obsolete) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
(obsolete) The shaft of a spear.
(obsolete) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
(euphemistic) A penis.

Examples of "truncheon" in Sentences

The lead filled truncheon is useful but most of us do not have that.
Others were said to depict sexual assaults with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.
He bore in his hand what was called a truncheon, which was a sort of sceptre, very splendidly covered and adorned.
Dave not only catches him - he beats the crap out of him with a truncheon, an act that is caught on tape a la Rodney King.
There is no excuse for a masked policemen to use a truncheon to hit in anger a man who is not facing him and has his hands in his pockets.
Alexander Konovalov, whose ministry oversees Parfyonchikov's service, said that in some regions court marshals are used as a "truncheon" against citizens, though he did not elaborate.
The Freudian truncheon is brandished almost to absurdity when Pyramidhead traps Rose and Cybil in an elevator and begins stabbing his really long blade between the elevator doors, trying to run them through.
According to the Bucks Free Press, the local force, Thames Valley, has itself been relieved of a truncheon, "five blue strobe flashing lights", handcuffs valued at £32.69, and a six-foot tall cardboard officer that was stolen from High Wycombe station.
More like President Kruger than Prince Albert – that's the best I can do for him; and I see him on a chair, in a black frock-coat, not so very high up either; I can manage a cloud or two for him to sit on; and then his hand trailing in the clouds holds a rod, a truncheon is it?