палка — meaning in English
palka
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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.
- club noun A group of people who join together for a shared interest or purpose, such as sport or recreation.
- rod noun A straight, thin bar, stick, or pole made of wood, metal, or similar material.
- staff noun The people who work for an organisation.
- stave noun One of the curved wooden strips fitted together to form the side of a barrel or cask.
- stick noun A thin piece of wood, especially a fallen branch or twig.
Senses
палка is used for these senses in English:
- baton (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- cane (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
- club (countable, golf) An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- piece of ass (US, idiomatic, colloquial, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse, especially a one-night stand.
- staff (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
- stave One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- stick A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- stick A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
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.