Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stake or small post.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A stake; a small post.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
stake ; a smallpost .
Etymologies
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See truncheon.
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Examples
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Did Kipling actually write a poem with the refrain 'An' it's trunch trunch truncheon does the trick '?
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Max Beerbohm, that's pre 1914, wrote a rousing song, 'And it's trunch-truvch-truncheon does the trick and in my childhood (that'll be the 50s) I remember a chap, a murderer I think, called Podola, being produced in court.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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When troops marched along there was just the steady trunch, trunch on the cobbled roads.
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