1. (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.

2. (n.) A baton, or military staff of command.

3. (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

4. (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.

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