Baton vs. Nightstick — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Baton and Nightstick
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Baton
(Music) A slender wooden stick or rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra, band, or other musical group.
Nightstick
A club carried by a police officer.
Baton
A hollow metal rod with a heavy rubber tip or tips that is wielded and twirled by a drum major or drum majorette.
Nightstick
A long narrow pole-like club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense.
Baton
A short staff carried by certain public officials as a symbol of office.
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Nightstick
A policeman's club.
Baton
(Sports) The hollow cylinder that is carried by each member of a relay team in a running race and passed to the next team member.
Nightstick
A short stout club used primarily by policemen
Baton
A short stick carried by police; a billy club.
Baton
(Heraldry) A shortened narrow bend, often signifying bastardy.
Baton
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
A field marshal's baton
Baton
(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
Baton
(sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
Baton
(US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon UK.
Baton
(heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
Baton
A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
Baton
To strike with a baton.
Baton
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.
Baton
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.
Baton
A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra
Baton
An implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race
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