truncheon 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- Archaic. to beat with a club.
truncheon 近义词
weapon
更多truncheon例句
- 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.