Truncheon, subst. 1) a short staff, a club, a cudgel: “thy leg a stick compared with this t.” H6B IV, 10, 52.
2) a staff of command: Meas. II, 2, 61. Troil. V, 3, 53. Hml. I, 2, 204. Oth. II, 1, 280 (not in Ff).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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