'Baton' definitions:
Definition of 'baton'
(from WordNet)
noun
A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand]
noun
A short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club]
noun
A short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
noun
A hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
noun
A hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
Definition of 'Baton'
From: GCIDE
- Baton \Bat"on\ (b[a^]t"[u^]n, F. b[aum]`t[^o]N"; 277), n. [F. b[^a]ton. See Baston.]
- 1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. [1913 Webster]
- He held the baton of command. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Her.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also {bastard bar}. See Bend sinister. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'baton'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achievement,
- alerion,
- alpenstock,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- aspersion,
- attaint,
- azure,
- badge,
- badge of infamy,
- badge of office,
- badges,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- bastardism,
- bastardy,
- bat,
- bearings,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- billy,
- billy club,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- blot,
- bludgeon,
- blur,
- bordure,
- brand,
- brassard,
- broad arrow,
- button,
- cadency mark,
- caduceus,
- cane,
- canton,
- cap and gown,
- censure,
- chain,
- chain of office,
- champain,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- class ring,
- club,
- coat of arms,
- cockade,
- cockatrice,
- collar,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- crook,
- crosier,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- cross-staff,
- crown,
- crutch,
- crutch-stick,
- decoration,
- device,
- diapason,
- difference,
- differencing,
- disparagement,
- dress,
- eagle,
- emblems,
- ensigns,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- falcon,
- fasces,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- figurehead,
- file,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- fret,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- gavel,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hammer and sickle,
- handstaff,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- heraldry,
- honor point,
- illegitimacy,
- illegitimateness,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- imputation,
- inescutcheon,
- insignia,
- label,
- lapel pin,
- lion,
- lituus,
- livery,
- lozenge,
- mace,
- Malacca cane,
- mantle,
- mantling,
- mark of Cain,
- markings,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- medal,
- metal,
- metronome,
- monochord,
- mortarboard,
- motto,
- mullet,
- music stand,
- mute,
- nightstick,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- old school tie,
- onus,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- pale,
- paly,
- pastoral staff,
- paterissa,
- pean,
- pheon,
- pillorying,
- pin,
- pitch pipe,
- point champain,
- portfolio,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- quarterstaff,
- reflection,
- regalia,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- rhythmometer,
- ring,
- rod,
- rod of office,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scepter,
- school ring,
- scutcheon,
- shamrock,
- shield,
- shillelagh,
- sigillography,
- skull and crossbones,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smudge,
- smutch,
- sonometer,
- sphragistics,
- spot,
- spread eagle,
- staff,
- stain,
- stave,
- stick,
- stigma,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- subordinary,
- swagger stick,
- swanking stick,
- swastika,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- tartan,
- tenne,
- thistle,
- tie,
- tincture,
- tone measurer,
- torse,
- tressure,
- truncheon,
- tuning bar,
- tuning fork,
- tuning pipe,
- unicorn,
- uniform,
- vair,
- verge,
- vert,
- walking stick,
- wand,
- wand of office,
- war club,
- wreath,
- yale