truncheon
Speech parts
1. truncheon - Noun
2. truncheon - Verb
Meaning
A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
A baton, or military staff of command.
A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
To beat with a truncheon.
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No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.
While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
A Black man beaten up by several French police officers said he is seeking justice after the publication of videos showing officers repeatedly punching him, using a truncheon and tear gas against him for no apparent reason.
Some military police forces, naval shore patrols, law enforcement and other groups used leather scabbards as a kind of truncheon.