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noun

Obsolete a short, thick club; cudgel
any staff or baton used as a symbol of authority
Chiefly Brit. a policeman's stick or billy
Obsolete the shaft of a spear
Obsolete a trunk or stem, esp. one with the branches lopped off

transitive verb

Archaic to beat with a truncheon

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