Definition of Truncheons

1. Noun. (plural of truncheon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Truncheons

1. truncheon [v] - See also: truncheon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truncheons

truncated icosahedra
truncated icosahedron
truncated icosahedrons
truncated pyramid
truncates
truncating
truncation
truncation error
truncations
trunch
truncheoned
truncheoneer
truncheoneers
truncheoning
truncheons (current term)
trunches
trunci intestinales
trunci lumbales
trunci plexus brachialis
truncus
truncus arteriosus
truncus arteriosus communis
truncus atrioventricularis
truncus brachiocephalicus
truncus bronchiomediastinalis
truncus celiacus
truncus coeliacus
truncus corporis callosi
truncus costocervicalis

Literary usage of Truncheons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Of home and country schooled them to be brave Camilla's way) rained weapons from the walls, And used oak-staves and truncheons shaped in flame, As if, ..."

2. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"But chang'd their pens for truncheons, ink for blood, I will not so far affront those gentlemen,who were at any time engaged in the study of the three ..."

3. The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (1838)
"Not young attorneys have this rage -withstood, But changed their pens for truncheons, ink for blood. ***** To check such heroes and their laurels crop, ..."

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