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TRUNCHEON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does truncheon mean?
• TRUNCHEON (noun)
The noun TRUNCHEON has 1 sense:
1. a short stout club used primarily by policemen
Familiarity information: TRUNCHEON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short stout club used primarily by policemen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
baton; billy; billy club; billystick; nightstick; truncheon
Hypernyms ("truncheon" is a kind of...):
club (stout stick that is larger at one end)
Context examples
In appearing before you to denounce probably the most consummate Villain that has ever existed, Mr. Micawber, without looking off the letter, pointed the ruler, like a ghostly truncheon, at Uriah Heep, I ask no consideration for myself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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