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Baston [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In architecture, a round molding in the base of a column; called also a tore, [torus.]

Baston [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A staff or cudgel.

2. See Baton.

3. 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.