Meaning of BATON
| Pronunciation: | | ba'tân
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- [n] a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra
- [n] an implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race
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| | See Also: | | rod, sports implement, wand | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bat"on\, 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.
He held the baton of command. --Prescott.
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}.
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