How to pronounce“truncheon”in English
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Definitions of “truncheon”
A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
“with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise”
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.”
To strike with a truncheon.
“If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out”
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