wands

Noun

wand (plural wands)

1. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
   • Then all of a sudden a number of armed men arranged in companies, and marshalled by officers who held ivory wands in their hands, came running swiftly towards us, having, so far as I could make out, emerged from the face of the precipice like ants from their burrows.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   staff, rod, stick, twig

   1. A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
      • Love is that blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart.1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC
2. (broadly) An instrument shaped like a wand.
   • curling wand
3. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
   • The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
5. (UK, figuratively, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
   • Without question, he is the best left-footed player I've ever played with. Along with his wand of a left foot he also has great pace and can be as hard as nails.2013 October 17, Lee McCulloch, Simp-Lee the Best: My Autobiography, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN

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