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noun (plural truncheons)
- A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
- Quotations
- 1786: One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52.
- With his truncheon he so rudely struck. Spenser.
- A baton, or military staff of command.
- Quotations
- 1604: Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. — William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene II, line 60.
- A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
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