bacchetta — meaning in English
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English meaning
- baton noun A short stick used by a police officer as a weapon or by a conductor to lead an orchestra.
- cane noun The tall, jointed stem of plants like bamboo or sugar cane.
- chopstick noun One of a pair of slender sticks used, held in one hand, to pick up and eat food, especially in East Asian cuisine.
- drumstick noun A stick used to strike a drum.
- pointer noun A useful tip or piece of advice.
- ramrod noun A rod once used to push ammunition and powder down the barrel of an old-fashioned firearm.
- rod noun A straight, thin bar, stick, or pole made of wood, metal, or similar material.
- wand noun A slender rod held in the hand, especially one used by a magician or as a symbol of authority.
Senses
bacchetta is used for these senses in English:
- baton (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- baton (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
- cane (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- drumstick A stick used to play drums. [from 16th c.]
- ramrod (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
- rod (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
- rod A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
- rod An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+1⁄2 yards.
baton — full definition
- noun A short stick used by a police officer as a weapon or by a conductor to lead an orchestra.
- noun A short rod passed from runner to runner in a relay race.
cane — full definition
- noun The tall, jointed stem of plants like bamboo or sugar cane.
- noun A walking stick used for support while walking.
- noun A rod traditionally used for corporal punishment, or the punishment itself.
- verb To hit someone with a cane as punishment.
- verb Informal: to heavily defeat or criticize someone.