BATON
\bˈatən], \bˈatən], \b_ˈa_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of BATON
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald