truncheon

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/, /ˈtɹʌnʃən/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/ Rhymes: -ʌnt͡ʃən === Noun === truncheon (plural truncheons) A short staff, a club; a cudgel. A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer. Synonyms: (US) nightstick, baton (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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== bludgeon === Verb === truncheon (third-person singular simple present truncheons, present participle truncheoning, simple past and past participle truncheoned) (transitive) To strike with a truncheon. ==== Translations ====