Vegetable vs Truncheon - What's the difference?
vegetable | truncheon |
Any plant.
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.
The edible part of such a plant.
(figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.
Of or relating to plants.
Of or relating to vegetables.
(label) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
*, Bk.VII:
*:Helpe me that thys truncheoune were oute of my syde, for hit stykith so sore that hit nyghe sleyth me.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.3:
*:Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left.
(label) The shaft of a spear.
A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:With his truncheon he so rudely struck.
*1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , p.52:
*:One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds.
A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
*1604 , William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure , Act II, Scene II, l.60:
*:Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.
(label) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
:(Gardner)
(label) A penis.
