Synonym: billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon, wand. Similar words: atone, incubator, at once, megaton, approbatory, all at once, atonement, platonic. Meaning: ['bætən] 
n. 1. a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir 2. a short stout club used primarily by policemen 3. a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority 4. a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette 5. a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race.
n. 1. a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir 2. a short stout club used primarily by policemen 3. a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority 4. a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette 5. a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race. 
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1. They were driven back by a police baton charge.
2. The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.
3. Each runner passes the baton to the next.
4. The President handed over the baton to his successor.
5. Five people were injured in the baton charge.
6. The orchestra played brilliantly under Previn's baton.
7. We can't dance to his baton.
8. The conductor raised his baton.
9. The conductor beat time with a baton.
10. Does this mean that the baton of leadership is going to be passed to other nations?
11. She twirled her baton high in the air as she led the parade.
12. The orchestra made the recording under the baton of a young German conductor.
13. It's halfway between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
14. The conductor's baton with attendant symphony orchestra.
15. Karajan, it seems, always had a superb baton technique.
16. Then there was the police baton charge.
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17. A baton twirler carried the flag.
18. I've never been able to twirl a baton.
19. Do you know how to twirl a baton?
20. He saw the storm-troopers practising karate, crowd control, baton practice and their skills with the knife and knuckleduster.
21. But why carry a baton for sentiment when it should be a scepter?
22. When I come home she passes the baton to me so she can rest.
23. A few days later, Rabbi Loewy returned to Baton Rouge to testify before the state senate.
24. Today, orchestral musicians wish to assert their identities again, to escape the thrall of the baton at last.
25. Illus.1 conveys this well, not least by the way the baton is shown as held some way towards the middle.
26. They stood there naked and shivering, huddled together as a soldier walked round them, prodding them with a baton.
27. They mechanically weave into intricate patterns, twirling their 10-pound rifles with the swiftness of a baton.
28. It moves from department to department in a pre-arranged sequence like the baton in a relay race.
29. He could have been leading a parade, twirling the baton.
30. Such leaders are all members of a spiritual relay race handing on the messianic baton it seems.