Baton vs. Truncheon — 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 short, thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer.

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

A short stick carried by police; a billy club.

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

A staff carried as a symbol of office or authority; a 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.

A thick cutting from a plant, as for grafting.

A short stick carried by police; a billy club.

(Obsolete) A heavy club; a cudgel.

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

(obsolete) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.

(obsolete) The shaft of a spear.

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

A short staff, a club; a cudgel.

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

A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.

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

(obsolete) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

(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.

(euphemistic) A penis.

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

(transitive) To strike with a truncheon.

To strike with a baton.

A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.

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

A baton, or military staff of command.

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.

A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

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

To beat with a truncheon.

An implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race

A short stout club used primarily by policemen