Baton vs Truncheon - What's the difference?
baton | truncheon |
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal
(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
(sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
(lb) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon (UK).
(heraldiccharge) An abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy. (Also spelled batune, baston).
(heraldiccharge) A riband with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, as shown on a coat of arms.
(label) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
*, Bk.VII:
*:Helpe me that thys truncheoune were oute of my syde, for hit stykith so sore that hit nyghe sleyth me.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.3:
*:Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left.
(label) The shaft of a spear.
A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:With his truncheon he so rudely struck.
*1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , p.52:
*:One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds.
A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
*1604 , William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure , Act II, Scene II, l.60:
*:Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.
(label) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
:(Gardner)
(label) A penis.