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Webster 1913 Edition
Baton
1.
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes;
as, the
. baton
of a field marshal; the baton
of a conductor in musical performancesHe 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
. Webster 1828 Edition
Baton
BATOON'
or BAT'ON,Noun.