Hypertext Webster Gateway: "baton"
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) 1.7 (wn)
baton
n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an
orchestra
2: an implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race
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