Word Finder - baton

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A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes

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the baton of a field marshal

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The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

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An object transferred by runners in a relay race.

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

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• billy club
• nightstick

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

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

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

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To strike with a baton.

Brady straightened, the baton in hand.

Lana raised the baton when she was within arm's reach and held it out.

Baton Rouge was one of the earliest French settlements in the state.

This one has a silver dial which with baton markings.

He had a crowd control baton the size of her hand that expanded with a touch to the thumb pad.

She rose and approached him, the baton behind her back.

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She reached down with one hand to retrieve the baton.

He tossed the baton and approached her, glaring down at her with dark eyes as hard as his chiseled frame.

His head hurt from the shock of the baton, and he couldn't help hoping she was a better shot than she was figuring out the baton.

The principal officers of the court in subordination to the judge were the registrar (an office which always points to a connexion with canon or civil law), and the marshal, who acted as the maritime sheriff, having for his baton of office a silver oar.

The Silurian system is represented by the Baton river beds to the west of the Aorere beds, occurring in the basin of the Motueka river, which flows into Tasman Bay.

Gaston's son, Antoine Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure (1656-1738), carried on the family reputation for wit, and, in spite of his military incapacity, received the marshal's baton in 1724.

Farragut from New Orleans, and the gunboat flotilla from the upper waters, had engaged the batteries in June and July, but had returned to their respective stations, while a Federal force under General Williams, which had appeared before the fortress, retired to Baton Rouge.

In 1604 he captured Dorpat, twice defeated the Swedish generals at Bialy Kamien, and was rewarded with the grand baton of Lithuania.

He himself and all the young nobles of his staff dismounted and led the infantry forward again, the prince threw his baton into the enemy's lines for the soldiers to retrieve, and in the end, after a bitter struggle, the Bavarians, whose reserves had been taken away to oppose Turenne in the Merzhausen defile, abandoned the entrenchments and disappeared into the woods of the adjoining spur.

The campus of the university is the former barracks of the Baton Rouge garrison, occupied by the college since 1886 and transferred to it by the Federal government in 1902.

A former army bandmaster, he has often wielded the baton at Jedburgh.

Steve also had a look of pleasure on being shown how to flick his old police baton to full length.

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And the gold rush continued as the baton was handed over to her fellow Welsh compatriots at the IPC Belgian European Trials.

We had a cat many years ago in Baton Rouge that was " playing " with a spit devil like cats play with lizards.

The pit band, under the baton of John Owen Edwards, is also first-rate.

Since she is in prison garb, one of the men takes it upon himself to whack her over the head with a baton.

I am more than happy to pass the ` baton ' on to you (uproarious laughter from the audience ).

The film became operatic - from where Hannibal assumes the baton.

The baton relay has been the traditional opener of the Commonwealth games, to be held in Manchester this year, since the 1970s.

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For his subsequent services to King John Casimir, especially in the Ukraine against the Tatars and Cossacks, he received the grand baton of the crown, or commandershipin-chief (1668).

The State Penitentiary is at Baton Rouge, and a House of Detention at New Orleans; and there are parish prisons.

Donaldsonville was the (nominal) capital in 1825-1831, Baton Rouge in1849-1864and again after 1882.

The intervening months were signalized by the capture of Baton Rouge in May 1862 - the Confederates vainly attempting to recapture it in August.

At Baton Rouge is the State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (1860), of which the Audubon Sugar School, "for the highest scientific training in the growing of sugar cane and in the technology of sugar manufacture," is an important and 'distinctive feature.

Other important institutions at Baton Rouge are a State Agricultural Experiment Station, asylums and schools for the deaf and dumb, for the blind, and for orphans, and the state penitentiary.

On the 5th of this month he was repulsed in his attack on Baton Rouge, but he won distinction at Stone River (December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863), where his division lost nearly a third of its number.

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You can also plan relay races, where players race to the other end of the pool, pass a baton or other pool stick/toy to their teammate, and then have the teammate swim or ride back to the starting point.

Raised, stationary brushed steel bezel frames the dark brown dial with luminous hands and baton hour markers.

During games, the Golden Girls tumbled, danced with poms, and there were even a couple of national baton twirling champions in their midst to entertain the crowds.

Or perhaps your drum major is a baton twirler who has distinguished herself among the cadre and has now moved to show off her skills at the front of the line.

Baton routines are intricate and often its effortlessness belies the months and years of practice needed to move in synchronization and intricate dance patterns.

The American Baton Company sells not only batons, but also other majorette related equipment and some team practice and warm up wear, plus uniform related accessories.

In addition to marching bands and music performances, many bands also have a drill or majorette team that offers entertainment in the form of baton twirling and acrobatic or gymnastic routines.

Not only do many routines now include baton twirling, but some are also expanding to include flags routines, dance routines or gymnastic routines.

In 1869 the institution was removed to Baton Rouge, and in 1877 it was united with the Agricultural and Mechanical College, established in 1873 and in 1874 opened at New Orleans.