trudgeon

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of trudgen.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of truncheon.

   “The teargas and trudgeons were there for all.”

   “Best sequence showing helmer's skill as an action director is the long, anguishing Irani prison revolt (a real event), which climaxes in masked guards beating the defeated rioters with trudgeons and iron bars.”

   “My master was then squeezed between two groups of men armed with trudgeons and sticks, spears and lances, rakes and sickles.”

3. (obsolete)A toddler.

   “I should like to pay Rockaway a visit this week, but I have allowed the little Major to take holiday and go to the country with his wife and little trudgeons, and must play merchant for a few days.”