Trinket vs Baton - What's the difference?
trinket | baton |
A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry
A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
(nautical) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
* Hakluyt
(obsolete) A knife; a cutting tool.
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.
As a noun trinket
is a small showy ornament or piece of jewelry.As a verb trinket
is to give trinkets; to court favour.As a proper noun baton is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
- It's only a little trinket , but it reminds her of him.
- Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands.
- (Tusser)
