英:[ˈtrʌntʃən]
美:[ˈtrʌntʃən]
英:[ˈtrʌntʃən]
美:[ˈtrʌntʃən]
n.
警棍
(粗短的)棍子
官杖
<旧>树干
trun·cheon
truhn chn
复数:truncheons
第三人称单数:truncheons
现在分词:truncheoning
过去式:truncheoned
过去分词:truncheoned
noun
a police officer's billy club
baton sense 2
obsolete club, bludgeon
a shattered spear or lance
verb
transitive verb
to beat with a truncheon
约于1300年,指“矛杆”,也指“短棍,棍棒”,源自古北法语 tronchon,古法语 tronchon(11世纪,现代法语 tronçon)“被切下的一块,粗棍子,树桩”,源自通俗拉丁语 *truncionem(主格 *truncio),源自拉丁语 truncus “树干”(参见 trunk(n.1))。指“作为职务象征的权杖”的意义记录于1570年代; 指“警棍”的意义记录于1816年。
Noun Middle English tronchoun, from Anglo-French trunchun, from Vulgar Latin *truncion-, *truncio, from Latin truncus trunk
The first known use of truncheon was in the 14th century
trundleverb
to transport in or as if in a wheeled vehicle : haul
trundled her off to school
to move on or as if on wheels
buses trundling through the city
truncheonnoun
a police officer's club
1 The policeman lifted his truncheon, and I closed my eyes, expecting a blow; it didn’t come.
2 A huge truncheon of wreck half buried in the sands.
3 Footage circulated on social media showing riot police spraying tear gas and bashing protesters with truncheons.
4 A club or truncheon.
短粗之棍,一棒
5 Two officers carrying truncheons run after a protester, who appears to fall, his glasses caught by the camera in midair.
6 Photo: BBC/Wall To Wall Harmless old buffers tackle uncomplicated cold cases while swatting irritably at the vagaries of modern life with their orthopaedic truncheons.
7 Each side must field somewhere between two and eleven players, some of whom shall carry flattened truncheons, while others toss about leather balls.
8 If the Second Amendment is not limited to firearms, Monday’s ruling also calls into question state-level bans on weapons like truncheons, saps, billy clubs, nunchucks, and the like.
9 Suddenly other young men - some armed with truncheons taken from the police - formed a human chain outside the main gates on Tahrir Square in an attempt to protect the collection inside.
10 Last month, an opposition press conference under the banner of "Don't Touch My Constitution" was broken up by police officers armed with truncheons.
11 The police countered by dispersing mourners with tear gas, police dogs, rubber bullets and truncheons.
12 Unarmed protesters fall to truncheons and rubber bullets.
13 Prosecutor Sarah Jones KC said he slapped and bit the woman and then threatened to abuse her with his truncheon.
14 Thugs patrol the city with truncheons and guns.
15 His truncheon strikes Helmuth in the stomach, so fast he doesn't see it coming.
16 The truncheon vibrates with each gunshot.
17 This was how my table wound up happily with a plate of deep-fried truncheons suggesting a cross between Indian samosas and Chinese egg rolls.
18 The policeman went over to the table and shook a truncheon in her face, warning her to shut up or else.
19 We snap back to the present, where Cortez—that’s the name on the back of the football jersey of this conquistador—flicks down an eye shield and snaps a truncheon to the ready.
20 I got on a lorry so many times, but every time I was taken off by the police; they hit my legs with truncheons.