Word Meanings - BATTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as,
SABBATON
A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
HYPERBATON
A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.