Definitionn. a short stout club used primarily by policemen
Last update: June 17, 2015
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The police were using truncheons to disperse the mob. [Please select]
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Truncheon the snake hard. [Please select]
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Plutarch (Cicero, 5) mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage. [Please select]
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FIRST WATCH: (Draws his truncheon) Liar. [Please select]
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At his left hip he wore a short sword; in his hand, however, he carried a truncheon, which looked like a roll of white paper. [Please select]
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The squire drew his sword and severed at one blow the steel head from the truncheon of the spear. [Please select]
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He supposed he would either engage them in conversation, or hit them with his truncheon, or perhaps do both things simultaneously. [Please select]
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But the climax came when a native policeman poked him in the ribs with a truncheon and ordered him out of sight. [Please select]
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"Here, my man, out you go on the roof to make one less, and have your truncheon handy." [Please select]
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Then a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, several sets of handcuffs, some bandages and sticking-plaster, and a flask and a sandwich-case. [Please select]
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So the "constabeel" prodded Akbar's rump with his truncheon, and helped himself, too, to sugar-cane by way of balancing accounts. [Please select]
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