"wooden" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Some of our men were hit with steel bars, lead pipes and wooden truncheons."
- It is a tradition of the service that standard policing should be carried out by uniformed officers equipped only with a wooden truncheon.
- In the early years of the Metropolitan Police, equipment was little more than a rattle to call for assistance, and a wooden truncheon.
- Until the mid-1990s, most police forces utilised a 14 inch long traditional wooden truncheon.
- The Celere was fitted with wooden truncheons at first [7] and some jeeps were provided by the U.S. military.
- When the rioters stormed the police station, it was defended by 16 police officers armed with wooden truncheons.
- The officer moved to the back of the room and returned with a wooden truncheon.
- A wooden truncheon tapped him on the shoulder.
- The big Russian, Pavel, drew a heavy wooden truncheon from beneath his own dark coat.
- Until the mid-1990s, British police officers carried traditional wooden truncheons of a sort that had changed little from Victorian times.
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