ba·ton /bəˈtɑn, bæ, ˈton ||ˈbætṇ/
指揮棒,接力棒,警棍
Bat·on n.
1. 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. --Prescott.
2. Her. 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.
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baton
n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an
orchestra
2: an implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race