truncheon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

   “with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim 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[…].”

4. isim The shaft of a spear.
5. isim 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”

6. isim 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”

7. fiil To strike with a truncheon.

   “If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out”