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▪ I. batoon, n. arch.|bəˈtuːn| Forms: 6 batune, 6–7 battune (sense 3), 7 battoune, 7–8 battoone, 7– battoon, batoon. [17th c. ad. F. baton, of which it retained the accent: see -oon. Now almost superseded by baton n., which follows the French spelling.] 1. A stout staff or stick used as a weapon, a cudgel, club, truncheon; = baston 1, baton n. 1.
a1625Fletch. & Mass. Elder Bro. v. i, My sword forc'd from me..Get me a battoon. 1632Chapman & Shirley Ball iv. ii, I'll cullice thee With a batoon. 1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 719 Although his Shoulders with Batoon Be claw'd and cudgel'd to some tune. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) III. 321 Often he fought with huge Battoon. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. 238 The bowls..are driven with a battoon, or mace. 1860All Y. Round No. 71. 491 Winterfield, though he escaped the batoon, was ordered to leave his shop. 2. A staff of office; = baton n. 2.
1658Brome Covent Gard. iii. i, The Lord and the Lowne, Must move by the motion of the Leaders Battoon. a1693Ashmole Antiq. Berks (1723) III. 60 In his right hand is a Battoon, as a General. 1704Luttrell Brief Rel. V. 427 A battoon set with diamonds, sent him from the French King. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xiv. 65 The Areopagites..held in their hands, as a mark of their authority, a sort of batoon made in the form of a sceptre. 3. Her. = baston 3, baton n. 3, which is the form now used. (In 16–17th c. usually written batune.)
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 64 b, The bastard shal beare the fourth part of this [Bende Sinyster] which must bee called a batune sinister. 1611Cotgr., Cottice, a Cottice or Battune. 1611J. Guillim Heraldry ii. v. 52 Batune is derived from the French word Baston..This is the proper and most vsuall note of Illegitimation, perhaps for the affinitie betwixt Baston and Bastards; or else for that Bastards lost the priuilege of Freemen, and so were subject to the seruile stroke. 1662Fuller Worthies ii. 299 Over all a Batune dexter-ways Argent. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Battoone, the fourth Part of a Bend Sinister. 4. Arch. = baston 6 (q.v.), baton n. 5, batten.
1819P. Nicholson Dict. Archit. I. 57 Bastion or Batoon; see Torus. 1852Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. I. 45 Baton, Batoon, or Battoon..a name given to the torus between the listel or fillet and the plinth, in the base commonly assigned to the Roman Doric order. ▪ II. batoon, v. arch.|bəˈtuːn| [f. prec. n.] To beat or strike with a batoon, to thrash with a stick, to cudgel. (See baton v.)
1683Roxb. Bal. (1885) 336 Payton batoon'd him for calling him Rogue. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xvi, If you do not depart..I will batoon you to death. 1863Sala Capt. Dang. I. iv. 102, I would batoon you to a mummy. |