noun. A slender wooden stick or rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra, band, or other musical group.

noun. A hollow metal rod with a heavy rubber tip or tips that is wielded and twirled by a drum major or drum majorette.

noun. A short staff carried by certain public officials as a symbol of office.

noun. The hollow cylinder that is carried by each member of a relay team in a running race and passed to the next team member.

noun. A short stick carried by police; a billy club.

noun. A shortened narrow bend, often signifying bastardy.

noun. A staff or club; a truncheon: carried either for use as a weapon, as a policeman's baton;

noun. as a mark of authority, as the baton of a field-marshal; or

noun. as a warrant to do something, as the baton or staff carried in Great Britain by the engineer of a train on a single-track railway, as his authority to proceed.

noun. In music: The stick or wand used by the leader of a chorus or an orchestra in directing the performance.

noun. A rest of two or more measures.

noun. In heraldry, same as baston, 1 .

noun. Also spelled batton.

To strike with a baton; cudgel.

noun. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.

noun. 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.

noun. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal

noun. The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

noun. An object transferred by runners in a relay race.

noun. A short stout club used primarily by policemen.

noun. An abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy. (Also spelled batune, baston).

verb. To strike with a baton.

noun. a short stout club used primarily by policemen

noun. a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette

noun. a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority

noun. a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race

noun. a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir

""Clearly," wrote Geerdes, "the Tac [tical Squad] cop with his baton is the modern counterpart of the bone-wielding killer ape, while the longhaired hippy represents ... a regression to an earlier, primitive level of development" — but one that promised "intellectually a progression into the future.""

to wield a good baton  

club  rod  sports implement  staff  

Abidjan  Abron  Amman  Antoine  Aton  

cudgel  mace  mallet  truncheon  wand  

Malacca cane  achievement  alerion  alpenstock  animal charge  

bastard bar  bend sinister