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Nightstick   Listen
noun
nightstick  n.  A policeman's club.
Synonyms: truncheon, billy, billy club, billystick.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Nightstick" Quotes from Famous Books



... breath and pretended to be asleep. He did not know what he was to do or where he was to go. Such a calamity as this had never entered into his calculations of the evils which might overtake him, and it overwhelmed him utterly. A policeman touched him with his nightstick, and spoke to him kindly enough, but the boy only backed away from the man until he was out of his reach, and then ran on again, slipping and stumbling on the ice and snow. He ran to Christopher Street, through Greenwich Village, and ...
— Cinderella - And Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis



Words linked to "Nightstick" :   billystick, truncheon, billy club, billy, baton, club



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