Synonyms

truncheons

[truhn-chuhn]

trun·cheon

[truhn-chuhn]
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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Truncheons is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English tronchon fragment < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *trunciōn-, stem of *trunciō literally, a lopping. See trunk, -ion
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