What is "truncheon"

Usage examples of "truncheon".

At this stage of the affray Duke Philip, at the request of the Duke of Orleans, flung his truncheon into the lists and ended the fight, in time to save the Sicilian knight.

Behind him, arms crossed on their chests, polished wooden truncheons prominently displayed, stood two more muscular guardsmen.

Half of them stood somewhat apart from a dozen in maroon, backed up against the side of a cubicle, truncheons held threateningly aloft.

They walked in pairs, watchful of everyone around them, and had truncheons at their belts, too.

And therewithall looking about for some cudgel, hee espied where lay a fagot of wood, and chusing out a crabbed truncheon of the biggest hee could finde, did never cease beating of mee poore wretch, until such time as by great noyse and rumbling, hee heard the doores of the house burst open, and the neighbours crying in most lamentable sort, which enforced him being stricken in feare, to fly his way.

The assorted weapons- the battered swords, lances, pitchforks, truncheons and even a few rusty fusils - that so many of them carried bore testimony to th equality of their determination, if not its source.

She had always thought of sex in a disconnected way because penises seemed like something added on, with a separate existencerather comic and bulgy tassels one minute, and the next minute terrible truncheons.

They were selling all different types, from little handheld ones, to the sort that fire out prongs on a wire that you can use to attack someone from a five-meter range, right up to big ones that resembled police truncheons.

As Eliste gaped in pure disbelief, truncheons swung and bludgeons flailed.

Concentration camps, broken treaties, rubber truncheons, castoroil -- everything is admitted.

His first thought was that someone was trying to steal the bakkie and that he had left the truncheon indoors.

And if you use your stick he pointed to the short truncheon that hung from Annas belt if you use it on his blade, then he cannot hurt you.

He finally bends down and searches the figures, but none bears anything that might prove useful, except for the gold and silver coins in their wallets, two daggers, a truncheon, and a short straight sword with a double edge.

Wouldn't you rather be in front of your own fireside instead of risking double pneumonia and a clobbering from a bobby's truncheon?

Langholme dropped the truncheon of a lance for the onset, and they moved in with a double, weaving, essaying swiftness, like one man before a mirror.