Synonyms of the word

baton

• n. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
• n. (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
• n. (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
• n. (US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon (UK).
• n. (heraldry) An abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy. (Also spelled batune, baston).
• n. (heraldry) A riband with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, as shown on a coat of arms.
• v. To strike with a baton.

billy

• n. A billy club.
• n. A billy goat.
• n. (Geordie) A good friend.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea, a billypot.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Canada) A billycan.
• n. (slang) A condom (from the E-Rotic song "Willy, Use a Billy… Boy").
• n. A slubbing or roving machine.

club

• n. A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything^Wp.
• n. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
• n. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
• n. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
• n. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
• n. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
• n. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
• v. (transitive) to hit with a club.
• v. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
• v. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
• v. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
• v. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
• v. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
• v. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
• v. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
• v. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

nightstick

• n. (law enforcement) A long narrow pole-like club carried by police and security people, for use in self-defense.

rod

• n. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
• n. (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
• n. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer…
• n. An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment,…
• n. A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along…
• n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters…
• n. An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used…
• n. (archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
• n. A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or…
• n. (anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
• n. (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
• n. (chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in…
• n. (slang) A pistol; a gun.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A penis.
• n. (slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with…
• n. (ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen…
• n. (mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
• n. (rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
• v. (construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
• v. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To penetrate sexually.

staff

• n. (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in…
• n. (music, plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
• n. (plural staff) The employees of a business.
• n. (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.^W.
• n. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
• n. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
• n. (archaic) The rung of a ladder.
• n. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
• n. (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
• n. (surgery) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
• n. (military) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an…
• n. Misspelling of staph.
• v. (transitive) to supply (a business) with employees.

truncheon

• n. (obsolete) A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or…
• n. (obsolete) The shaft of a spear.
• n. A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
• n. A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
• n. (obsolete) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
• n. (euphemistic) A penis.
• v. (transitive) To strike with a truncheon.

wand

• n. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing.
• n. (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
• n. a magic wand.
• n. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
• n. plural: A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
• v. (transitive) To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.