English Dictionary

truncheon

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɹʌntʃən/

名詞

廃用 婉語

(obsolete) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance. / (obsolete) The shaft of a spear. / A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

日本語の意味

（古語）何かから折れた破片、特に槍やランスの折れた部分 / （古語）槍の柄部分 / 短い棒、棍棒、または警棒として使われる棒状の物

The historian carefully examined the truncheon, noting its splintered tip and concluding it had once been part of a spear.

歴史家は注意深く折れた槍の破片を調べ、そのささくれた先端を見てかつて槍の一部だったと結論づけた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A 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[…].

意味（2）

(obsolete) The shaft of a spear.

意味（3）

A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A 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

意味（6）

(euphemistic) 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

truncheons （ plural ）