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/bətˈɑn/ /bˈætˌɑn/ /bˈætən/ Listen

noun

Baton n.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. "He held the baton of command."

(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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... strongholds." It was amusing to witness the poor fellow's pompous precision of movement as he stood behind his master's chair or helped the guest to his humble meal; the rigidity of his inactive moments, or the ridiculous jerkiness with which he passed a platter as 'twere to the time of a drill-sergeant's baton. More amusing still to one able, like Count Victor, to enter into the humour of the experience, was it to have his garrulity get the better of him in ...

— Doom Castle • Neil Munro

... Happy Tom, who had a deep and thunderous voice. Then snatching up a long stick he began to wave it as a baton, and the others, instinctively following their leader, roared it forth, more than ten ...

— The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide • Joseph A. Altsheler

... one been justified, The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments—the baton has given the signal. ...

— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman

... be made. To the more prominent courtiers above enumerated was added Jacques d'Albon de Saint-Andre, son of Henry's tutor, who, from accidental intimacy with the king in childhood, was led to aspire to high dignities in the state, and was not long in obtaining a marshal's baton.[552] Herself securing not only the rank of Duchess of Valentinois, with the authority of a queen,[553] but the enormous revenues derived from the customary confirmation of offices at the beginning of a new reign, Diana permitted the constable, the Guises, and Saint-Andre ...

— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird

... pass Bayou Sara and Baton Rouge, and then you can run in at any landing you like, say twenty miles or so below. Can ...

— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough

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