Baston
- n. 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.
- n. A staff or cudgel.
- n. See Baton.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.