How would you use truncheon in a sentence?

= Truncheon =

truncheon (plural truncheons) # (Weapon) A short staff, a club; a cudgel ; a shaft of a spear. #: Quotations #:* 1786: One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds. - Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52. #:* With his truncheon he so rudely struck. Spenser. # A baton, or military staff of command. #: Quotations #:* 1604: Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sWord, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene II, line 60. # A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.