baston

From Middle English baston, from Old French baston. Doublet of baton.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæstən/

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• Rhymes: -æstən

baston (plural bastons)

1. (heraldry) Obsolete form of baton.
2. (obsolete) A staff or cudgel.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     Thoſe Chriſtian Captiues, which you keepe as ſlaues, […]
     when they chance to reſt or breath a ſpace,
     Are puniſht with Baſtones so grieuouſly,
     That they lie panting on the Gallies ſide.

   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:

     [fight] performed by bastons, clubs and coulstaves

3. (obsolete) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.
   • 1377, Statute of the Realm 1, Richard II, cap. 12‎:

     Item, whereas divers people, at the suit of the party commanded to the prison of the Fleet, by judgment given in courts of our Lord the King, be oftentimes suffered to go at large by the warden of the prison, sometime by mainprise or by bail, and sometimes without any mainprise with a baston of the Fleet, and to go from thence into the country about their merchandises and other their business, and be there long out of prison nights and days, without their assent at whose suit they be judged, and without their gree thereof made, whereby a man cannot come to his right and recovery against such prisoners, to the great mischief and undoing of many people; It is ordained and assented, That from henceforth no warden of the Fleet shall suffer any prisoner there being by judgment at the suit of the party, to go out of prison by mainprise, bail, nor by baston, without making gree to the said parties of that whereof they were judged, unless it be by writ or other commandment of the King, upon pain to lose his office, and the keeping of the said prison.

   • 1562, Statute of the Realm 5, Elizabeth I, cap. 23‎:

     When any person or persons shall yield his or their body or bodies to the hands of the sheriff or other officer, upon any of the said writs of capias, that then the same party or parties that shall so yield themselves, shall remain in prison and custody of the said sheriff or other officer, without bail, baston or mainprize, in such like manner and form, to all intents and purposes, as he or they should or ought to have done, if he or they had been apprehended and taken upon the said writ of excommunicato capiendo.

   • 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter of Words and Terms‎:

     Baston, is a French Word signifying a Staff or Club, and by the Statures of our Realm, denotes one of the Wardens of the Fleet's Servants or Officers, that attendeth the King's Court with a painted Staff, for the taking into Custody such as are committed by the Court.

   • 1876, Herbert Mozley, George Whiteley, A Concise Dictionary of Law‎:

     Baston (Bâton). A French word signifying a staff or club. In the statutes it sometimes denotes an officer in attendance upon the king's court with a painted staff, for the taking into custody persons committed by the court.

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at

• Abston, Batson, Bostan, batons, bâtons, tabons

baston

1. accusative singular of basto

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baston f (plural bastons)

1. (colloquial) scrap, fight

• “baston”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Spanish bastón.

bastón

1. cane
2. stick

From Spanish bastón.

baston

1. cane
2. club, stick

• bastun, bastune

From Old French baston.

• IPA^(key): /basˈtuːn/, /ˈbastun/

baston (plural bastons) (rare)

1. A staff, or baton; a relatively long, narrow, and thin object.
2. Commuting or ending of one's imprisonment by a warden.
3. A line or group of lines in a poetic composition.
4. A strike or slap with a staff or baton.
5. A baton in heraldry.

• English: baston
• Scots: baston

• “bastǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

From Old French baston.

baston m (plural bastons)

1. stick, truncheon

From Late Latin bastum.

baston oblique singular, m (oblique plural bastons, nominative singular bastons, nominative plural baston)

1. stick, truncheon

• French: bâton
• → Middle English: baston, bastun, bastune
  • English: baston
  • Scots: baston

From Spanish bastón and Portuguese bastão.

baston

1. stick

Borrowed from Italian bastone.

baston n (plural bastoane)

1. walking stick

Borrowed from Spanish bastón, from Old French baston, probably from Vulgar Latin *bastō, *bastōnis. Doublet of baton.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /basˈton/ [bɐsˈton]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bas‧ton

bastón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜈ᜔)

1. cane; staff; walking stick

   Synonym: tungkod

2. (colloquial) act of hitting someone with a cane
3. a style of trouser cut in which the legs gradually narrow at the lower end

• bakulo

bastón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜈ᜔)

1. with the legs tapering down the lower end (of trousers)

• “baston”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Ottoman Turkish باستون (baston), from Venetian bastón.

• IPA^(key): [bɑsˈton]
• Hyphenation: bas‧ton

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baston (definite accusative bastonu, plural bastonlar)

1. cane, walking stick

baston m (plural bastoni) (Alternative plural: bastuni)

1. stick, club, baton

• bastonada

From Old French baston, probably from a Vulgar Latin *basto, bastonis, itself a modification of Late Latin bastum, or possibly noun use of the verb *bastāre, from Ancient Greek βαστάζειν (bastázein).

• IPA^(key): /bas.tɔ̃/

baston m

1. stick