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truncheon

/truhn-chuhn/US // ˈtrʌn tʃən //UK // (ˈtrʌntʃən) //

警棍,警戒线,警车,警笛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the club carried by a police officer; billy.
    • : a staff representing an office or authority; baton.
    • : the shattered shaft of a spear.
    • : Obsolete. cudgel; bludgeon.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. to beat with a club.

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Examples

  • Lukashenko responded by dispatching heavily armed security forces who beat protesters with truncheons and rifle butts, and hauled them into miserable, jam-packed prisons.

  • Ludmila says that she attacked a policeman bludgeoning an elderly woman with a truncheon, but in vain—the woman died.

  • Truncheon spoke in a low voice, and with the deepest and most respectful melancholy.

  • And she shot one glance at Fitzroy, who shot another at the great Truncheon, who held down his eyes.

  • The gesture is mainly pride, but there is misgiving in it, too: the knowledge that the pen is not as mighty as the truncheon.

  • I think that he actually had provided himself with a truncheon to meet all the emergencies of supreme command.

  • The dagger and the night-stick (the latter a stout truncheon weighted with lead) were doing the work, and effectively, too.