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The wild radish. Dr. Prior.

To chew with force and noise; to craunch. And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron.

To scranch; to crunch. Dickens.

A stake; a small post. [Obs.]

A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. With his truncheon he so rudely struck. Spenser.

Having a truncheon.

A person armed with a truncheon. [Written also truncheoner.]

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. He held the baton of command. Prescott.

To bite into small pieces; to crunch. Steele.

To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch. Swift.

The unbrunched antler of a young deer.

To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls. [Formerly written also maunch and mounch.] I could munch your good dry oats. Shak.

A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff. And make him with our pikes and partisans a grave. Shak.

Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable. Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop. Addison. Right-hand rope, a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.

nt upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.

A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will. When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder to arrest them there. Daniel. Wafting his warder thrice about his head, He cast it up with his auspicious hand, Which was the signal, through the English sp…