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Truncheon

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Noun

1. baton, billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon

a short stout club used primarily by policemen

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Truncheon

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noun
1. mainly British
a short thick club or cudgel carried by a police officer
2. 
a baton of office
a marshal's truncheon
3. archaic
a short club or cudgel
4. 
the shaft of a spear
verb
5. (transitive)
to beat with a truncheon

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Truncheon

see synonyms of truncheon
noun
1.  Obsolete
a short, thick club; cudgel
2. 
any staff or baton used as a symbol of authority
3.  Chiefly British
a policeman's stick or billy
4.  Obsolete
the shaft of a spear
5.  Obsolete
a trunk or stem, esp. one with the branches lopped off
verb transitive
6.  Archaic
to beat with a truncheon

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Truncheon

see synonyms of truncheon
n.
1. A short stick carried by police; a billy club.
2. A staff carried as a symbol of office or authority; a baton.
3. A thick cutting from a plant, as for grafting.
4. Obsolete A heavy club; a cudgel.

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