a. [f. TRUNCHEON sb. + -ED2.] Furnished or armed with a truncheon.
1761. Goldsm., Cit. W., cix. The brickdust man took up as much room as the truncheoned hero.
1808. Morning Post, 9 July, 3/3. Why, Sir, (replied the truncheoned Monarch), you may keep it until the Day of Judgment, and then you and your Play may be d——d together!’
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 698. Truncheoned and uniformed as becomes a man of his military habits.
1839. Morn. Herald, 11 July. The truncheoned police of the metropolis.
1883. Hall Caine, Cobwebs of Crit., vii. 202. A city-marshal broke his leg on Lord Mayor’s-day, while walking truncheoned from the Mansion House to Blackfriars Bridge.
