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truncheoned

truncheoned is the simple past and past participle of truncheon.

Meaning of truncheon

Verb

truncheon (third-person singular simple present truncheons, present participle truncheoning, simple past and past participle truncheoned)

  1. (transitive) To strike with a truncheon.
    • If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you outc. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...

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Adjective

truncheoned (not comparable)

  1. Armed with a truncheon.

Questions about truncheoned

What does truncheoned mean?
Truncheoned means armed with a truncheon.
What is truncheoned the simple past and past participle of?
Truncheoned is the simple past and past participle of truncheon.
What part of speech is truncheoned?
Truncheoned is an adjective.

Words near truncheoned in the dictionary

  1. truncators
  2. truncature
  3. truncatures
  4. trunch
  5. truncheon
  6. truncheoned
  7. truncheoneer
  8. truncheoneers
  9. truncheoner
  10. truncheoners
  11. truncheoning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: truncheoned (page history and authors); truncheon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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