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bastons

bastons is the plural of baston.

Meaning of baston

Noun

baston (plural bastons)

  1. (obsolete) A staff or cudgel.
    • Thoſe Chriſtian Captiues, which you keepe as ſlaues, […]
      when they chance to reſt or breath a ſpace,
      Are puniſht with Baſtones so grieuouſly,
      That they lie panting on the Gallies ſide.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  2. (obsolete) 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.
    • Item, whereas divers people, at the suit of the party commanded to the prison of the Fleet, by judgment given in courts of our Lord the King, be oftentimes suffered to go at large by the warden of the prison, sometime by mainprise or by bail, and sometimes without any mainprise with a baston of the...1377, Statute of the Realm 1, Richard II, cap. 12

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Proper noun capitalized: Bastons

Bastons

  1. (plural) plural of Baston

Phrases with bastons

Questions about bastons

What is bastons the plural of?
Bastons is the plural of baston.
What part of speech is bastons?
Bastons is a proper noun.

Words near bastons in the dictionary

  1. bastonaded
  2. bastonades
  3. bastonading
  4. Bastone
  5. Bastones
  6. bastons
  7. bastos
  8. bastourma
  9. Bastow
  10. Bastows
  11. Bastoy

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