baston means A surname from Old French. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
baston is pronounced /ˈbæstən/.
name
- A surname from Old French.
- A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1114).
noun
- A staff or cudgel.“Thoſe Chriſtian Captiues, which you keepe as ſlaues, […]
when they chance to reſt or breath a ſpace,
Are puniſht with Baſtones so grieuouſly,
That they lie panting on the Gallies ſide.”
- An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.“Item, whereas divers people, at the suit of the party commanded to the prison of the Fleet, by judgment given in courts of our Lord the King, be oftentimes suffered to go at large by the warden of the prison, sometime by mainprise or by bail, and sometimes without any mainprise with a baston of the Fleet, and to go from thence into the country about their merchandises and other their business, and”