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Definitions
a short stout club used primarily by policemen
Word origin
From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
Used in a sentence
“with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise”
“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.”
“The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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