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truncheon

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted cehnnortuStarts with TEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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