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noun
1.
the club carried by a police officer; billy.
2.
a staff representing an office or authority; baton.
3.
the shattered shaft of a spear.
4.
Obsolete. cudgel; bludgeon.
verb (used with object)
5.
Archaic. to beat with a club.
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truncheon
c.1300, "shaft of a spear," also "short stick, cudgel," from O.N.Fr. tronchon, O.Fr. tronchon (11c.) "a piece cut off, thick stick, stump," from V.L. *truncionem (nom. *truncio), from L. truncus (see trunk). Meaning "staff as a symbol of office" is recorded from 1575; sense
EXPANDof "policeman's club" is recorded from 1880.
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