Meanings (ES + gloss)
porra
A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
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, faste…
with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise
porra
A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
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.
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