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n. Music A slender wooden stick or rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra or band.

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

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

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

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

n. Heraldry A shortened narrow bend, often signifying bastardy.

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

n. The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

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

n. A short stout club used primarily by policemen.

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

v. To strike with a baton.

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

n. 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.

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

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

n. 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.

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

n. A rest of two or more measures.

n. In heraldry, same as baston, 1 .

n. Also spelled batton.

To strike with a baton; cudgel.

n. a short stout club used primarily by policemen

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

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

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

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

"We must take the bipartisan baton from the members of the Commission and demonstrate a unity of purpose in achieving the goal of financial stability once again."

club    rod    staff    sports implement   

to wield a good baton   

bastard bar    bend sinister   

staff   

Abidjan    Abron    Amman    Antoine    Aton    Azerbaijan    Bataan    Batten    Bhutan    Bon   

truncheon    cudgel    mallet    wand    mace