trunchion

To conclude, there is a way of graffing a sallow-trunchion; take it of two foot and half long, as big as your wrist; graff at both ends a fig, and mulberry-cyon of a foot long, and so, without claying, set the stock so far into the ground, as the plant may be three or four inches above the earth: This (some affirm) will thrive exceedingly the first year, and in three, be fit to transplant.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

[BX] "An _upright man_ is one that goeth wyth the trunchion of a staffe, which staffe they cal a Flitchm [= a].

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle