(n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
(n.) A baton, or military staff of command.
(n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
(v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the police's own footage of what followed, shown in court, mounted officers with batons drawn can be seen charging into miners, and officers on foot beat miners about the head with truncheons.
(2) Camouflaged riot police bearing rubber truncheons hold back protesters begging the tsar for bread.
(3) People forget that you were very young and yet public enemy No 1, at the centre of incidents such as going on Bill Grundy's show and the police arriving with truncheons.
(4) I don't want to get hit in the face with a truncheon.
(5) Some 20 officers were seen brutally beating one protester with truncheons.
(6) The BBC showed miners throwing stones and other missiles at the police, followed by mounted officers charging into them, and then officers chasing miners, some clearly being hit over the head with truncheons.
(7) Arthur Critchlow, who suffered a fractured skull from a police truncheon and was arrested, held on remand and prosecuted for rioting – for which he was acquitted with 94 others – told the home secretary that his community has never trusted the police since.
(8) Excerpts On police uniforms "Having gone truncheons to tasers in a generation, I have to wonder what purpose the current police service has been built for ... we are mostly approachable and pleasant people, it's just that we dress like Imperial Stormtroopers.
(9) Miners, fighting to protect jobs in pits that were subsequently closed down after the strike was defeated, were truncheoned over the head, then several spent time in prison on remand, fearing very long sentences, while awaiting trial.
(10) The worst scenes of violence in the miners' dispute broke out at the Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham, Yorkshire, yesterday with cars being burned, stones, bricks and bottles being hurled, and policemen lashing out with truncheons.
(11) Truncheon-wielding police attacked the crowds after a small number of people – provocateurs, according to the opposition – broke windows and doors in a government building.
(12) On the other side of the ticket barrier a younger man is whacked with truncheons by two policemen.
(13) Soon afterwards the police gave up, handing their helmets, truncheons and shields to the crowd.
(14) There’s a reputational risk as well as financial risk Jerry Petherick, G4S Prison officers in Oakwood are not armed with truncheons, as they often are in state-run jails, but wear body cameras attached to a strip on their right shoulder – an innovation that has proved very successful, both at de-escalation of violent incidents (“As soon as they see the camera recording they swear a few times, and they calm down,” a guard says) and when recording the effects of overdosing on black mamba.
(15) In the latest of several protests by opposition activists who say their leader will be denied a fair chance at next year’s election, police fired teargas and beat demonstrators with truncheons on Monday to stop them storming the offices of the electoral commission in Nairobi.
(16) Over Friday night police in Kiev broke up the remnants of the anti-government demonstration , swinging truncheons and injuring many, news agencies and witnesses said.
(17) Masked men with truncheons and shields were seen at the entrance to the building as a crowd of about 400 people surrounded it, while police stood nearby but did not intervene.
(18) A police procedural that is much more than the sum of its parts – The Thick of It with truncheons, basically.
(19) "We do not want to be kept quiet by a policeman's truncheon," heavyweight boxer and opposition leader Vitali Klitschko told the crowd.
(20) He said: "And the Syrians seem to be taking a different approach as well, one that makes widespread use of firearms, while the Iranians have generally armed their internal security forces with less lethal means, such as teargas, truncheons, chains, and the like, to reduce the lethality of their response, and to scare off the more faint-hearted among the opposition.
Weigh
Definition:
(n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
(v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
(v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
(v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
(v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
(v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
(v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
(v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.
(v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
(v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.
(v. i.) To judge; to estimate.
(n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(2) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(3) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(4) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(5) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
(6) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(7) Among infants weighing less than 2 500 g, perinatal mortality was higher in the local hospital than in the university hospital, the higher mortality being due to the higher rate of stillborn infants.
(8) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(9) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(10) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(11) The babies were weighed prior to the morning feeding.
(12) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
(13) The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects.
(14) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(15) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
(16) The improved survival of the infants weighing 1,500 gm or less when compared with infants of similar weights in preceding years is attributed to more intensive perinatal management of these mothers and their very-low-birth-weight infants.
(17) We therefore developed a food frequency questionnaire and tested it against a 4-day weighed food record in 54 Caucasian women, between 29 and 72 years of age.
(18) These advantages must be weighed against the finding that overheating was more common and Pseudomonas was more commonly isolated from the infants.
(19) The experiment was performed using two young male camels which weighed 24 and 36 kg respectively at birth.
(20) Fears over China's financial system also weighed ( see this post for the background ).