truncheon

n.

1. A short stick carried by police; a billy club.
2. A staff carried as a symbol of office or authority; a baton.
3. Obsolete.
   1. A heavy club; a cudgel.
   2. A thick cutting from a plant, as for grafting.

[Middle English tronchon, piece broken off, club, from Old North French, from Vulgar Latin *trunciō, *trunciōn-, from Latin truncus, trunk. See trunk.]

truncheon trun'cheon v.

IN BRIEF: A short stout club used primarily by policemen.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. — Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996)

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a policeman's club
  Synonyms: nightstick, billy, billystick

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - knippel, kommandostav, politistav

Nederlands (Dutch)
wapenstok

Français (French)
n. - matraque

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schlagstock

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εμβληματική ράβδος, ρόπαλο, κλομπ (αστυνομικού)

Italiano (Italian)
manganello, sfollagente

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cacete (m), cassetete (m)

Русский (Russian)
полицейская дубинка

Español (Spanish)
n. - cachiporra, porra

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - batong, kommandostav, påk, klubba

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
棍子, 权杖, 警棍

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 棍子, 權杖, 警棍

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 곤봉, 경찰봉

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 警棒, 職杖

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صولجان ألسلطه, هراوة, عصا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אלה, מקל‬

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