truncheon
IPA: trˈʌntʃɪn
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive) To strike with a truncheon.
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Examples of "truncheon" in Sentences
- They are frequently used as a mini truncheon.
- The general shape is similar to a policeman's truncheon.
- His harsh use of the truncheon forces Vyvyan into labour.
- Both are truncheon like weapons, used for striking and bludgeoning.
- The lead filled truncheon is useful but most of us do not have that.
- A police radio or truncheon is thought to have delivered the fatal blow.
- Some other administrator might step in, with a mop, bucket and truncheon.
- Anson is livid, and brings the truncheon down, hitting Trevor on the kneecap.
- A cross between friendly arbitrator and truncheon wielding anti vandal warrior.
- His action was likened to a policeman hitting a small offender with a truncheon.
- Literally meaning branch, the chabang is a truncheon or knife with three prongs.
- 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?