Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A club or truncheon; a baton.
- noun A staff of office. See
baton , 1. - noun In heraldry, same as
baston , 1 . - noun In architecture, same as
baston , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
baton , andbaston .
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- noun archaic A
baton .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of this mighty Order I am no mean member, but already one of the Chief Commanders, and may well aspire one day to hold the batoon of Grand Master.
Ivanhoe 2004
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Be it known to you, that it is not defect of power in us which hath occasioned the assembling of this congregation; for, however unworthy in our person, yet to us is committed, with this batoon, full power to judge and to try all that regards the weal of this our Holy Order.
Ivanhoe 2004
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Evander no grudge for overcoming him at fence, but if Sir Blaise proved the better man with the batoon, there would be a kind of compensation in it.
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I will exchange my long-desired batoon for a sceptre! ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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Neither have our brother's sagacity and prudence been less in repute among his brethren than his valour and discipline; in so much, that knights, both in eastern and western lands, have named De Bois-Guilbert as one who may well be put in nomination as successor to this batoon, when it shall please Heaven to release us from the toil of bearing it.
Ivanhoe 1892
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--- Be it known to you, that it is not defect of power in us which hath occasioned the assembling of this congregation; for, however unworthy in our person, yet to us is committed, with this batoon, full power to judge and to try all that regards the weal of this our Holy Order.
Ivanhoe 1892
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Of this mighty Order I am no mean member, but already one of the Chief Commanders, and may well aspire one day to hold the batoon of Grand
Ivanhoe 1892
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I must allow him, notwithstanding his relationship to your lordship, the privileges of a rational person, and either batoon him sufficiently to expiate the violence offered to my person, or else bring it to a matter of mortal arbitrament, as becometh an insulted cavalier. ''
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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"Rogue!" screams Dr. Toobey, "but for the worshipful house we are in, I would batoon you to a mummy."
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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This person on horseback carries a golden batoon before his coach, but salutes none with it, except the king, when the archbishop and his majesty happen to meet.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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