Top 10 similar words or synonyms for truncheons

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Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for truncheons

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Baton (law enforcement) The Victorian original has since developed into the several varieties available today. The typical truncheon is a straight stick made from wood or a synthetic material, approximately in diameter and long, with a fluted handle to aid in gripping. Truncheons are often ornamented with their organizations' coats of arms. Longer truncheons are called "riot batons" because of their use in riot control. Truncheons probably developed as a marriage between the club or military mace and the staff of office/sceptre.
Aloe striatula Like other climbing aloes, it can easily be propagated by cuttings(truncheons) as well as by seed.
Time for Heroes Writing under the name Heavyhorse to fans on the Libertines web forum about the song, Doherty explained the meaning behind the lyric "wombles bleed, truncheons and shields":
Indian club Circa 1913/14 the Bodyguard unit of the British suffragette movement carried Indian clubs as concealed weapons for use against the truncheons of the police.
Battle of the Beanfield Eventually the police launched another attack during which the worst of the violence is purported to have taken place. According to "The Observer", during this period pregnant women and those holding babies were clubbed by police with truncheons and the police were hitting "anybody they could reach". When some of the travellers tried to escape by driving away through the fields, "The Observer" states that the police threw truncheons, shields, fire-extinguishers and stones at them in an attempt to stop them.