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- noun Plural form of
baston .
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Examples
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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.
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"Prouided alwaies, that they be paued beneath with stone; and for want thereof, laid with green willow bastons, and for default of them, with vine cuttings, or such _trousse_, so that they lie halfe a foot thicke."
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Bastoners, danza popular catalana A Ball de bastons stick dance from
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Bastoners, danza popular catalana A Ball de bastons stick dance from
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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.
Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603
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But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons in their hands (as it were) forbidding us to land; yet without any cries of fierceness, but only as warning us off, by signs that they made.
New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1593
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The more important editions of the single treatises are: Cinq livres de chirurgie (Paris, 1572), his masterpiece; La méthode de traicter les playes faictes par hacquebutes et aultres bastons à feu: et de celles qui sont faictes par fleches, flecdardz et semblables: aussi des combustions specialement faictes par la pouldre à canon (Paris,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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On eut de la peine a les rompre, et les soldats combattoient avec les crosses de mousquet et les scies qu'ils avoient au bout de grands bastons au lieu de picques. "
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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