noun. 
                    The tetanus bacillus, which has a round spore at one extremity.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One of the sticks used in beating a drum.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Hence, from its shape, the lower or outer joint of the leg of a dressed fowl, as a chicken, duck, or turkey.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The stilt-sandpiper or bastard dowitcher, Micropalama himantopus.