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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Baton \Bat"on\, n. [F. b[^a]ton. See {Baston}.] 1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. He 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: baton n 1: used by a conductor to direct an orchestra 2: passed from runner to runner in a relay race
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