Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
baton .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The girl was covered with 5,274 beads, the same size and form as those covering the boy; she had no belt, but at her side the archaeologists found a number of small, lancelike ivory objects and two batonlike objects made from antlers.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Marla was mesmerized by the swaying Hula dancers, energized by the hip-gyrating Tahitian girls, and stunned by the male Samoan fire knife dancers who twirled flaming batonlike knives to a ferocious drumbeat.
Hair Raiser Cohen, Nancy J, 2000
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One of the detectives helped him on with his metal and plastic armor; before sealing his gauntlets, he reciprocated the assistance, then checked the needler and blaster and the long batonlike ultrasonic paralyzer on his belt and made sure that the radio and sound-phones in his helmet were working.
Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934
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Most of them carried ultrasonic paralyzers, eighteen-inch batonlike things with bulbous ends.
Temple Trouble H. Beam Piper 1934
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