Baton vs. Sword — What's the Difference?

(Music) A slender wooden stick or rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra, band, or other musical group.

A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved.

A hollow metal rod with a heavy rubber tip or tips that is wielded and twirled by a drum major or drum majorette.

A handheld weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt.

A short staff carried by certain public officials as a symbol of office.

An instrument of death or destruction.

(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.

The use of force, as in war.

A short stick carried by police; a billy club.

Military power or jurisdiction.

(Heraldry) A shortened narrow bend, often signifying bastardy.

(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon device with a grip- a hilt (a pommel and cross guard), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.

(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

(tarot) A card of this suit.

(sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.

(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

(US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon UK.

(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.

(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.

To stab or cut with a sword

A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

To strike with a baton.

Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.

Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

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.

The military power of a country.

A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra

One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

An implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race

A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade