truncheonn.
/ˈtrʌnʃən/ 1.
a. A piece broken or cut off, a fragment. Also figurative. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment
shreddingc950
brucheOE
shredc1000
brokec1160
truncheonc1330
scartha1340
screedc1350
bruisinga1382
morsel1381
shedc1400
stumpc1400
rag?a1425
brokalyc1440
brokeling1490
mammocka1529
brokelette1538
sheavec1558
shard1561
fragment1583
segment1586
brack1587
parcel1596
flaw1607
fraction1609
fracture1641
pash1651
frustillation1653
hoof1655
arrachement1656
jaga1658
shattering1658
discerption1685
scar1698
twitter1715
frust1765
smithereens1841
chitling1843
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 805 Of þe adder he fond mani tronsoun.
a1500 (?a1400) Morte Arthur (1903) l. 3071 One hytte hym vpon the olde wounde With A tronchon of An ore.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Nivv/1 A Trenshon, fragmentum.
1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1627) 18 Small trunchions of coleworts sod in sallet oyle and..brine.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tronçonneur,..a cutter of things into truncheons or lumpes.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 7 A huge truncheon of wreck half buried in the sands.
1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains viii. 240 [They] set before him truncheons of tales upon their lighted theatre.
b. spec. A fragment of a spear or lance; a piece broken off from a spear. Obsolete or archaic.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > fragment of spear or lance
truncheonc1330
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 827 (MED) On a tronsoun [a1400 Egerton tronchen, 1457 Naples tronchyn, a1500 Cambr. tronchon, Chetham trunchyn] of is spere Þat heued a stikede for to bere.
a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 2149 Þe spere tobrast on two trunsoun.
a1400 K. Alis. 3740 A gentyl kniȝth..Had on hym many wounde And a trunchoun in his flaunche.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 156 Þei breken here speres so rudely þat the tronchouns flen in sprotes & peces all aboute the halle.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 48 He smote Gryfflet..and brake the spere, that the truncheon stake in hys body.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iii. sig. C4 Therewith a sunder in the midst it brast, And in his hand nought but the troncheon left. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 538 His brazen Buckler on the left was seen; Truncheons of shiver'd Lances hung between.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 337 Sir Kenneth's lance..had wounded him deep in the bosom,..leaving the truncheon of the lance fixed in his wound.
c. The shaft of a spear. Obsolete or archaic.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > shaft of spear
spear-shafta900
ashOE
shaftc1000
truncheon13..
tree?a1366
timberc1400
sting?a1500
spear-staff1530
steal1530
rodc1540
stale1553
stave1873
staff-
13.. K. Alis. 2154 Alisaundre..him mette with speris egge; Through brunny and scheld, to the akedoun, He to~barst atwo his tronchon.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3093 Þurch þe bodi he bar a trounsoun.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. v. 891 Their captaines..laying about with their truncheons [L. hastile] upon the backs of them that so trembled for feare,..forced them againe into their ranks.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xix. 21 A fancied moss-trooper, the boy The truncheon of a spear bestrode.
2. A short thick staff; a club, a cudgel. Obsolete or archaic except as in 3.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun]
sowelc893
treec893
cudgelc897
stinga900
bat?c1225
sticka1275
clubc1275
truncheon14..
bourdonc1325
bastona1400
warderera1400
plantc1400
kibble1411
playloomc1440
hurlbatc1450
ploykc1450
rung1491
libberlac1500
waster1533
batonc1550
macana1555
libbet1562
bastinado1574
crab-tree comb1593
tomahawkc1612
billeta1616
wiper1622
batoon1637
gibbeta1640
crab-bat1647
kibbo1688
Indian club1694
batterdasher1696
crab-stick1703
bloodwipea1705
bludgeon1730
kierie1731
oaken towel1739
crab1740
shillelagh1772
knobstick1783
pogamogganc1788
whirlbat1791
nulla-nulla1798
waddy1800
kevel1807
supple1815
mere1820
hurlet1825
knobkerrie1826
blackthorn1829
bastera1833
twig1842
leangle1845
alpeen1847
banger1849
billy1856
thwack-stave1857
clump1868
cosh1869
nulla1878
sap1899
waddy1899
blunt instrument1923
14.. Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 709 in Anglia XVIII. 324 He beryth his seede, Lik a trwnsown or a pestell.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 1428 (MED) At þe prisoun dore Beues fond A tronsoun þat he tok in is hond.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2890 O gret trownsciown In til his hond.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ix. 48 Thy legge a sticke compared with this Truncheon . View more context for this quotation
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 449 A Castle of wood..which the Senatours Armed with tronchions did asault and take.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. 113 A Truncheon strong Confirms his staggering steps.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 707 Stern beasts in trains that by his truncheon fell.
1756 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 451 You walk with your stick as with a truncheon, whilst we poor invalids make use of ours as a walking-staff.
3. † b. figurative. Cf. trunk n. 1b. Obsolete.
a. A staff carried as a symbol of office, command, or authority; a marshal's baton; most frequently in modern usage, a short staff or club with which a police constable is armed.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod
yardc1275
tipped stickc1386
bastona1400
mace?a1419
wandc1430
warderc1440
baculc1449
roda1450
verge1493
staff1535
tipstaff1541
verger1547
truncheon1573
vare1578
baton?1590
trunch1590
fasces1598
macer wanda1600
virge1610
batoona1652
stick1677
shaku1875
poker1905
1573 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 203 A Trunchin for the dictator.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 63 Not the Kings Crowne; nor the deputed sword, The Marshalls Truncheon, nor the Iudges Robe Become them with one halfe so good a grace As mercie does. View more context for this quotation
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 43 An express Embassy, attended with an Ivory Truncheon and a Triumphal Robe.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. vii. iii. 305 You are come..to take the command of the troops.., and into your hands I resign this truncheon.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 412 For his religion [Schomberg] had resigned a splendid income, had laid down the truncheon of a Marshal of France.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. li. 82 Stones were thrown on the one side and truncheons used on the other.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > and broadness > person
knarc1405
hoddy-doddya1556
trunk1586
truncheon1601
stump1602
fubs1614
dumpling1617
punch1669
Punchinello1669
spud1688
knur1691
knurl1691
runt1699
squab1699
swad1706
humpty-dumpty1785
junt1787
knurlinga1796
pudge1808
stumpie1820
nugget1825
podge1834
dump1840
dumpy1868
pyknic1925
mesomorph1940
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iv. sig. Gv For such a one to yoke her free sweet youth Vnto a Lowne,..A guilden Trunchion, fie, tis slauish vile.
4. † a. The stem or stock of a tree. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stem, trunk, or bole
stovenc1000
bolec1314
bodyc1330
stock1340
shaft1398
stealc1440
truncheonc1449
trunk1490
stud1579
leg1597
butt1601
truncus1706
stam1839
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 28 Tho bowis grewen out of stockis or tronchons, and the tronchons or schaftis grewen out of the roote.
b. A length cut from a plant, esp. one used for grafting or planting; a stout cutting. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
quickwoodc1383
graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
sleavingc1440
talionc1440
quick1456
quicking1469
graft1483
quickset1484
slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip > for grafting
imp1377
graffa1398
talionc1440
graft1483
slip1495
set1513
wedge?1523
scutcheon1572
shield1572
truncheon1572
breeder1601
scion1612
escutcheon1658
slit-graft1706
graffshoot1860
shield-bud1891
1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer iv, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 18 Another waye to set Mulberies..cut..great Mulberye bowes, or stockes, asunder in the bodye (wyth a sawe) in troncheons a foote long or more,..make a..furrowe in good earth, well and deepe, so that ye may couer..your troncheons.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1729) i. xviii. 86 [Alders] are propagated of Trunchions..the Trunchions being set as big as the Small of one's Leg.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lime tree The Truncheons make far better Coal for Gun-Powder, than that of Alder it self.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sallow When you Graft Sallow, take a Truncheon as big as your Wrist, of two Foot and an half long.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 127 Neither wild truncheons on the olive graft.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful > intestinal > in horses
truncheon1440
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 504 Trunchon, wyrme, lumbricus.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 283/2 Trunchon a worme.
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. xcvi. f. 69v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe In a Horses guttes doe breede thre kinds of Wormes... The third be shorte & thicke lyke the ende of a mans little finger, and therefore be called Troncheons.
c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. xxxix. 167 Several kinds of Vermin bred in the Bodies of Horses, which go under the Denomination of Bots, Worms and Trunchions.
1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 84 Another Drench for Worms, Botts and Truncheons.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > tail > part of
horsehaira1387
stern1575
strumple1598
strunt1610
truncheon1639
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. iv. 24 The Hams dry, and streight, the Trunchion small, long, well set on, & well couched.
7. Used for trencher n.1 II. Obsolete.
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1548 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 167 For serving of his gracis tabill upoun tuelf sylver trunscheones.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 131 Trojans their Tables ate, eat thou thy Truncheon.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
truncheon-bearer n.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1896 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 5/2 Yesterday was a busy..day for truncheon-bearers all over London.
1912 S. R. Driver in Expositor Jan. 35 Out of Machir came down truncheon~bearers.
truncheon-fashion n.
ΚΠ
1750 R. Pococke Trav. (1888) 71 A sceptre..in the truncheon fashion, having a round head guarded with points.
truncheon officer n.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1708 Mem. John Hall 11 Out jump Four Trunchion Officers.
truncheon-sceptre n.
ΚΠ
1814 Sporting Mag. 44 147 Brandishing his truncheon-sceptre.
C2.
truncheon-snake n. (see quot. 1737).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Vipera > member of
addereOE
ammodyte1608
asp1710
truncheon-snake1737
viper1802
1737 Dr. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 254 Vipera fusca: The brown Viper in Virginia: In Carolina it is called the Truncheon-Snake.
truncheon-wise adv. in the manner or form of a truncheon.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [adverb] > truncheon
truncheon-wise1572
1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer vii, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 47 Certaine..trees..which in cutting the great braunches thereof truncheon wise, doe renewe againe.
Derivatives
ˈtruncheoner n. one who bears a truncheon.
ΚΠ
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 50 I..hit that Woman, who cryed out Clubbes, when I might see from farre, some forty Truncheoners [ Wks. (ed. Johnson, 1765) truncheoneers] draw to her succour. View more context for this quotation
ˈtruncheonist n. nonce-words = truncheoner n.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 372 Circumscribed..by 184 B and his co-truncheonists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† truncheonadj.
Obsolete. rare.
= trunch adj.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad
short shoulderedc1405
bunting1584
squaddy1593
chubby1611
truncheon1611
squat1630
squabbish1666
truss1674
squab1675
squad1675
stocky1676
punch1679
trunch1683
squat1688
stub1711
fodgel1724
thick-set1724
puddy1747
chunky1749
dumpy1750
squabby1754
knurly1758
clunch1776
trunchy1778
fubsy1780
punchy1780
humpty-dumpty1785
trunched1787
pudgy1788
fubby1790
runty1807
squattish1809
roly-poly1818
stumpy1822
hoddy-doddy1824
spuddya1825
hodmandod1825
stubby1831
podgy1832
fubsical1834
dumpty1847
fatling1847
stuggy1847
nuggety1856
cloddy1876
blocky1879
chumpy188.
cobby1883
squidgy1891
stockish1913
pyknic1925
humpisha1935
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Retroussé, thicke and short, druggellie, trunchion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
truncheonv.
a. transitive. To reduce to ‘truncheons’ or fragments; to break in pieces; to shatter. Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst
to-breakc888
briteOE
to-shenec950
abreakOE
forgnidea1000
to-brytc1000
to-burstc1000
to-driveOE
shiverc1200
to-shiverc1200
to-reavec1225
shiverc1250
debruise1297
to-crack13..
to-frushc1300
to-sliftc1315
chinec1330
littlec1350
dingc1380
bruisea1382
burst1382
rushc1390
shinderc1390
spald?a1400
brittenc1400
pashc1400
forbruise1413
to break, etc. into sherds1426
shattera1450
truncheon1477
scarboyle1502
shonk1508
to-shattera1513
rash1513
shidera1529
grind1535
infringe1543
dishiver1562
rupture1578
splinter1582
tear1582
disshiver1596
upburst1596
to burst up1601
diminish1607
confract1609
to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612
dishatter1615
vanquashc1626
beshiver1647
disfrange1778
smash1778
explode1784
bust1806
spell1811
smithereen1878
shard1900
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 21 Thus began the bataylle..with speris that sone were tronchonned.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 47 She fill doun..alle thurgh smyten & tronchoned with amerouse sorowe.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 286 The Saudan valyauntly smote geffray, & tronchoned his spere vpon his shild.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > cut up or carve > eel
truncheon1486
transon1508
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fviiv An Ele trous[o]ned [perh. read tronsoned].
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 169 Trounchen an eel, cut him up.
1853 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 343 He gobbets trout, truncheons eel, fins chub, tusks barbel [etc.].
2. To beat with a truncheon, to baton.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > strike with specific blunt weapon [verb (transitive)]
mellc1440
wapper1481
bebat1565
rib-roast1570
batonc1580
flail1582
club1593
bastonate1596
cudgel1598
rib-baste1598
shrub1599
truncheon1600
cut1607
scutch1611
macea1634
batoon1683
towel1705
quarterstaff1709
pole1728
handspike1836
blackjack1847
bludgeon1868
sandbag1887
cosh1922
sap1926
pistol-whip1930
knuckle-dust1962
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 137 And Captaines were of my mind, they would trunchion you out, for taking their names vpon you.
1839 Morning Herald 20 July They are occasionally truncheoned by the police.
Derivatives
ˈtruncheoning n.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > breaking into pieces or shattering
shiveringc1400
truncheoning1477
upbreaking1493
confraction?1541
refraction1578
splinting1598
diffraction1654
hatchet work1697
shattering1748
exploding1791
smash1808
explosion1811
splintering1815
blasting1824
shatterment1841
scatteration1880
smashing1886
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 20 Whan hit cam to the tronchoning of their speris.
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