stunrod

plural stunrods

1. engineeringA baton that delivers an electric shock upon striking someone or something.

   She saw Ackerman's stunrod before she saw him.

   2017 September 19, Ryan Graudin, Invictus, →ISBN, unnumbered page

   3 more examples

   One of Checker's monitors unbolted a hatch set in the middle of the grate while two more drew stunrods and stood guard.

   1996, Paul Chafe, Mission Critical: Death of the Phoenix - A Novel, →ISBN, page 92

   Outside stood two tall men, anonymous in black shock armor, their stunrods loose in their hands.

   2007, Kristin Landon, The Hidden Worlds, →ISBN, page 147

   They sentenced him to the Gate a little while after I moved over there, and, when he figured out I was there as well, he and his little band of delinquent Enforcers used their authority to make my life Hell. Any little thing, and at every petty little turn, if I did something he disapproved of, which was everything, he'd set his stunrod on low and hit me.

   2016 July 8, Fey Truet, Altered World, →ISBN, unnumbered page