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▪ I. † baston Obs. or (in sense 6) arch.
Forms: 4 bastun, 4–8 baston, 6 bastoun, bastion, 6–7 bastone, 7 (bastome).
[a. OF. baston (mod.F. bâton), cogn. with Sp. baston, Pg. bastão, It. bastone, pointing to a late L. *bastōn-em, of unknown origin: Diez suggests a connexion with Gr. βαστάζ-ειν to lift, carry. Replaced in 17th c. by batoon, and now by baton n.; another form is batten.]
1. A staff or stick used as a weapon or a staff of office; a cudgel, club, bat, truncheon; = baton n. 1, batoon 1.
a1300Cursor M. 15827 Wit þair bastons [v.r. bastunes; staues] bete þai him. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. (1880) 182 Florypes..took a baston in her honde. 1577Holinshed Chron. III. 1226/1 His baston (a staffe of an ell long made taper wise tipt with horne). 1598Barret Theor. Warres iv. i. 102 Armed but lightly, with a short baston or trunchion in his hand. 1598Stow Surv. (transl. Fitzstephen) xi. (1603) 93 The schollers of euery schoole haue their ball or bastion in their hands. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 213 A Baston, or batoon, fustis, baculus. 1756Nugent Montesquieu's Spir. Laws (1758) II. xxviii. xx. 271 In process of time none but bondmen fought with the baston.
2. A stanza, or verse. (Transl. of staff, stave.)
a1300Cursor M. 14923 Es resun þat wee vr rime rune, And set fra nu langer bastune [v.r. bastoun]. c1308in Rel. Ant. II. 175 The clerk that this baston wrowȝte. Ibid. 176 Nis this bastun wel i-piȝte, Euch word him sitte a-riȝte. 1330R. Brunne Chron. Pref. 99 If it were made in ryme couwee..outhere in couwee or in baston.
3. Her. = baton n. 3.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 79 Thimperiall egle..In siluer, gulie baston ouer all. 1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. iii. (1634) 144 A baston..must not touch the Scotcheon at both the ends. 1660Waterhouse Arms and Arm. 112 That were..a baston of Allay to that Gentleman who should extenuate the merit of Military Grandees.
4. Card-playing. A club. Cf. basto.
1593Munday Def. Contraries 49 The inuenter of the Italian Cardes..put the Deniers or monyes, and the Bastons or clubs in combate togither.
5. Old Law. Title of ‘one of the Warden of the Fleet's men, who attends the king's courts with a red staff, for taking such to ward as are committed by the court; and likewise attends on such prisoners as are suffered to go at large by licence.’ Chambers Cycl. 1727–51. (Cf. tip-staff, gold-stick-in-waiting, etc.) Hence, to go out of prison by baston, to remain in prison without baston.
1366Act 1 Rich. II, xii, [Whereas diuers people be..suffered to goe at large by the Warden of the prison] alefoitz sanz as-cun maynpris avec une baston de Flete [sometimes without any maineprise with a baston of the Fleet..It is ordained and assented, that..no Warden of the Fleet shall suffer any prisoner] aler hors de prisone par maynpris, baill ne par baston [to go out of prison by mainprise, baile, nor by baston.] 1562Act 5 Eliz. xxiii. §8 The same Party..shall remain in the Prison..without Bail, Baston or Mainprize. 1619Dalton Countr. Just. cvi. (1630) 273 If the officer shall suffer his prisoners to go abroad for a time, by baile or baston. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 475 Committed to the Tower of London, there to remain one year without bayle, baston or Mainprize.
6. Arch. A round moulding at the base of a column, a torus. [So bâton in mod.F.]
1751Chambers Cycl., Baston or Batoon..a mould in the base of a column, otherwise called a tore. 1847in Craig.
▪ II. † ˈbaston, v. Obs.
[f. prec. n.; cf. OF. bastonner (mod.F. bâtonner); and see baton v.]
To beat with a staff or cudgel. Hence bastoned ppl. a.
1593Dee Diary 43 And that I wold try on the fleysh of him, or b(u)y a bastoned gown of him. |