▪ 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 Now almost superseded by baton n., which follows the French spelling.]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.
| a 1625 Fletch. & Mass. Elder Bro. v. i, My sword forc'd from me..Get me a battoon. 1632 Chapman & Shirley Ball iv. ii, I'll cullice thee With a batoon. 1664 Butler Hud. ii. ii. 719 Although his Shoulders with Batoon Be claw'd and cudgel'd to some tune. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) III. 321 Often he fought with huge Battoon. 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. 238 The bowls..are driven with a battoon, or mace. 1860 All 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.
| 1658 Brome Covent Gard. iii. i, The Lord and the Lowne, Must move by the motion of the Leaders Battoon. a 1693 Ashmole Antiq. Berks (1723) III. 60 In his right hand is a Battoon, as a General. 1704 Luttrell Brief Rel. V. 427 A battoon set with diamonds, sent him from the French King. 1807 Robinson 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.)
| 1562 Leigh Armorie (1597) 64 b, The bastard shal beare the fourth part of this [Bende Sinyster] which must bee called a batune sinister. 1611 Cotgr., Cottice, a Cottice or Battune. 1611 J. 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. 1662 Fuller Worthies ii. 299 Over all a Batune dexter-ways Argent. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict., Battoone, the fourth Part of a Bend Sinister. |
4. Arch. = baston 6 (q.v.), baton n. 5, batten.
| 1819 P. Nicholson Dict. Archit. I. 57 Bastion or Batoon; see Torus. 1852 Archit. 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.)
| 1683 Roxb. Bal. (1885) 336 Payton batoon'd him for calling him Rogue. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xvi, If you do not depart..I will batoon you to death. 1863 Sala Capt. Dang. I. iv. 102, I would batoon you to a mummy. |