A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon (UK).
An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children,
To strike with a baton.
A rung of a ladder.
A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
simple past tense of speak
To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.