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A short, thick, heavy stick carried by police officers as a weapon. It is the British word; in American English the same object is a 'nightstick' or a 'billy club', and 'baton' is now the more usual and more official word in Britain too, especially for the modern extendable kind, so 'truncheon' can sound a bit old — the wooden one that a bobby kept in a long pocket. Note that a truncheon is meant for hitting and for making people move back, so the word almost always appears in serious contexts: protests, arrests, fights. Because of that it also carries a flavour of state force; writers use it as a picture of harsh authority. Occasionally a truncheon is a ceremonial staff carried as a sign of office, and very rarely you meet it as a verb, meaning to beat someone with one.
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
truncheonnoun/ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/
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A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
- with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise
- One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds.
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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.
- The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon.
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obsoleteA fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
- Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…].
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obsoleteThe shaft of a spear.
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obsoleteA stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
- Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground
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A penis.
- 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
truncheonverb/ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/
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To strike with a truncheon.
- If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。