truncheon

Meanings

1. A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
2. A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
3. A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
4. The shaft of a spear.
5. A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
6. A penis.

1. To strike with a truncheon.

Etymology

From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.