TRUNCHEON
NOUNS
► BASTINADO a stick, staff, rod, cudgel, truncheon → 1598
► BASTON a staff or stick used as a weapon or a staff of office; a cudgel, a club, a truncheon → a1300 obs.
► BATON a staff or stick used as a weapon, sometimes also of iron, or iron-tipped; a club, a cudgel, or truncheon → 1548 obs.
► BATOON a stout staff or stick used as a weapon; a cudgel, a club, a truncheon → a1625 arch.
► CHARLIE WOOD a police truncheon → 1930s sl.
► MISTER WOOD ► MR. WOOD a police truncheon → 1930s sl.
► SAG a policeman’s truncheon → 1930s US tramps’ sl.
VERBS
► SAG to beat with a truncheon → 1930s US tramps’ sl.
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