Truncheon

1. v. t. To beat with a truncheon.
2. n. A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
3. n. A baton, or military staff of command.
4. n. A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.