The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baston \Bas"ton\ (b[a^]s"t[u^]n), n. [OF. baston, F. b[^a]ton, LL. basto. See Bastion, and cf. Baton, and 3d Batten.]
A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] ``To fight with blunt bastons.''
--Holland.(Her.) See Baton.
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.
--Mozley & W.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context heraldry English) (obsolete form of baton English) 2 (context obsolete English) A staff or cudgel. 3 (context obsolete English) 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.
Wikipedia
Baston is a village and parish on the edge of The Fens and in the administrative district of South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. The 2011 census reported the parish had 1,469 people in 555 households.
Like most fen-edge parishes, it was laid out more than a thousand years ago, in an elongated form, to afford the produce from a variety of habitats for the villagers. The village itself lies along the road between King Street, a road built in the second century, and Baston Fen which is on the margin of the much bigger Deeping Fen. Until the nineteenth century, the heart of Deeping Fen was a common fen on which all the surrounding villages had rights of turbary, fowling and pasture.
Baston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bert Baston (1894–1979), footballer
- Caroline Baston (born 1956), former Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
- Daniel Baston (born 1973), footballer
- Guillaume-André-Réné Baston (1741–1825), theologian
- John Baston (1708–1739), Baroque composer
- Josquin Baston (c. 1515 – c. 1576), Dutch composer
- Maceo Baston (born 1976), basketballer
- Philip Baston (died c. 1320), cleric
- Robert Baston ( fl. 1300), Carmelite monk
- Vin Baston (1919–1963), sportsperson
- Borja González, known as Borja Bastón (born 1992), Spanish footballer
The baston ( Spanish and Filipino for " cane") is one of the primary weapons of Arnis and Filipino martial arts. It is also known as yantok, olisi, palo, pamalo, garrote, caña, cane, arnis stick, eskrima stick or simply, stick.
Usage examples of "baston".
Ivan stopped at the door of the Baston crypt, a tomb dug and christened after Bishop Claire Baston, a former des Gardiens Abbot of three centuries prior.
Almost instantly, Lazarus rounded the tunnel corner which led to the Baston Crypt.
There was a mint at the time of the Conquest, which proves that Bristol must have been already a place of some size, though the fact that the town was a member of the royal manor of Baston shows that its importance was still of recent growth.
Albert Baston, of Minnesota, and many other gridiron and diamond heroes, who were attracted to this branch of the service by the opportunities offered for quick action.
Then the voices diminish to tiny yelps as the men move through the Baston Arch and out into the dark, sloping courtyards of the east campus.
He was used to death in all its forms, from starvation during the appalling famines of 1315 and 1316, to those killed by swords and axes during the attacks of the trail bastons four years ago, but this little figure, whose hair tumbled silkily from beneath the cloth, seemed still more sad than all those.
Her parents had been the victims of a gang of trail bastons, a group of murderous thugs who robbed, murdered and looted wherever they could.
But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons in their hands, as it were forbidding us to land: yet without any cries or fierceness, but only as warning us off, by signs that they made.
Now I ain't given to second sight, but feelings show through, and it was right plain that this man liked the LaCroix people, but not the Bastons.