Crossword-Solution: TRUNCHEON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Truncheon | n. | A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. |
| Truncheon | n. | A baton, or military staff of command. |
| Truncheon | n. | A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. |
| Truncheon | v. t. | To beat with a truncheon. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “TRUNCHEON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A thick short stick carried by police officer as a weapon | 1 answer |
| Club, cudgel | 1 answer |
| Officer's baton | 1 answer |
| Type of nightstick | 1 answer |
| Policeman's club. | 3 answers |
| cosh | 4 answers |
| Nightstick? | 9 answers |
| knobkerrie | 11 answers |
| BASTINADO | 16 answers |
| billy club | 16 answers |
| Baton | 21 answers |
| Bludgeon | 24 answers |
| cudgel | 29 answers |
| Staff | 32 answers |
| Club | 53 answers |
| Bat | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with TRUNCHEON (5)
The Prince accordingly made a sign with his truncheon, as the Knight passed him in his second career around the lists.
Then the horn blew up and he spurred on, and his foeman met him fairly in the midmost of the lists: yet he laid his spear but ill, and as one who would thrust and foin with it rather than letting it drive all it might, so that Ralph turned the point with his shield that it glanced off, but he himself smote the other full on the shoulder, and the shaft brake, but the point had pierced the man's armour, and the truncheon stuck in the wound: yet since the spear was broken he kept his saddle.
Sam arose--his truncheon a hickory stick--and in a stentorian voice asked the names of the doughty knights who were there to win glory for themselves and the favor of fair women.
Shipwrecked seamen on the deep, though they bestride but the truncheon of a boom, are safe and near at home compared with mankind on its bullet.
The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon.
Quotes with TRUNCHEON (3)
And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one form or another he has been asking for an unrestricted share in the universal welfare. He has been asking for a fair dividend from civilisation. For all that time, and still it goes on, the advantaged people, the satisfied people, the kings and priests, the owners and traders, the …
It is their usual reaction; they employ not words and reasoned conversation or discourse to resolve problems, but the truncheon, the jackbooted foot, or the gun. Sophistication requires more competence and skill than mere thuggery. It is a harder, loftier charge to be civilised than to let the beast in man devour man. The enlightened mind knows that all is challengeable, questions all, and thus, learns and grows. The weak, narrow mind makes its beliefs — whatever form they ta…
Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark−haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2019).