truncheon

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
2. noun A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
3. noun A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
4. noun The shaft of a spear.
5. noun A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
6. noun A penis.
7. verb To strike with a truncheon.

Similar words

nightstick billy stick billystick baton rod mace missile rocket club

Often followed by

in of and to or on from was with

Word family

truncheoned truncheoning truncheons