Baton synonyms

bə-tŏn', bă-, băt'n

(Golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.

A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.

(Music) The horizontal lines on and between which notes are written or printed: the placement of a note on the staff indicates its pitch

club (related)

Something resembling a club.

wand (related)

(By extension) An instrument shaped like a stick or staff such as a curling wand.

bend

(In the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.

billy

(UK, Australia) A billycan.

bourdon

The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.

cudgel

A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

scepter

A staff held by a sovereign as an emblem of authority.

sceptre

(Chiefly Brit.) scepter

truncheon

Any staff or baton used as a symbol of authority

bend-sinister (related)

(Heraldry) A diagonal band on a coat of arms going from top right to bottom left (as you look at it), held to indicate bastardy.

nightstick

(Law enforcement) A long narrow pole-like club carried by police and security people, for use in self-defense. Often shortened to stick.

billystick

a short stout club used primarily by policemen

billy-club

A short stick or club, especially a police officer's club.

crosier

A staff with a crook at the top, carried by or before a bishop or abbot as a symbol of pastoral function

cross-staff

A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

crutch-stick

paterissa

sonometer

An audiometer.

the knife (related)

gun (related)

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