Sekirov Dictionary

truncheon

/ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/

noun 6
verb 1
forms 3

noun6

•
A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
- with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise — 1590
•
A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
- 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. — 1603
•
(euphemistic) A penis.
- Then, being on his knees between my legs, he drew up his shirt and bared all his hairy thighs, and stiff staring truncheon, red-topt and rooted into a thicket of curls — 1749
•
(no longer used) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
- Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…]. — 1596
(no longer used) The shaft of a spear.
•
(no longer used) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
- Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground — 1664

verb1

•
To strike with a truncheon.
- If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out — 1596

forms

truncheoned · truncheoning · truncheons

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