truncheon

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/|/ˈtɹʌnʃən/    美 /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
    — with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise
  2. A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
    — Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.
  3. A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance. obsolete
    — Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…].
  4. The shaft of a spear. obsolete
  5. A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. obsolete
    — Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground
  6. A penis. euphemistic
    — Then, being on his knees between my legs, he drew up his shirt and bared all his hairy thighs, and stiff staring truncheon, red-topt and rooted into a thicket of curls
    Fanny Hill
动词 v.
  1. To strike with a truncheon. transitive
    — If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out

词形变化

truncheons plural truncheons present,singular,third-person truncheoning participle,present truncheoned participle,past truncheoned past

词汇关系

衍生词
love truncheon luncheon truncheon truncheoneer truncheoner
相关词
bludgeon

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
词源 2
From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
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