Baton vs. Truncheon

Batonnoun

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes

Batonnoun

(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

Batonnoun

(sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.

Batonnoun

(US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon UK.

Batonnoun

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

Batonnoun

(heraldry) A riband with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, as shown on a coat of arms.

Batonnoun

A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.

Batonverb

To strike with a baton.

Batonnoun

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

Batonnoun

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.

Batonnoun

a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra

Batonnoun

an implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race

Truncheonnoun

(obsolete) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.

Truncheonnoun

(obsolete) The shaft of a spear.

Truncheonnoun

A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

Truncheonnoun

A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.

Truncheonnoun

(obsolete) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

Truncheonnoun

(euphemistic) A penis.

Truncheonverb

(transitive) To strike with a truncheon.

Truncheonnoun

A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.

Truncheonnoun

A baton, or military staff of command.

Truncheonnoun

A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

Truncheonverb

To beat with a truncheon.

Truncheonnoun

a short stout club used primarily by policemen

Truncheonnoun

a short, thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer.

Truncheonnoun

a staff or baton acting as a symbol of authority, especially that used by the Earl Marshal.