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Definition of Batoons
1. batoon [v] - See also: batoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batoons
Literary usage of Batoons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. by Samuel Carter Hall (1841)
"When on duty in courts, the men carry batoons, and deposit their arms in the
police-barracks. When their duty is discharged, " they are to return the ..."
2. Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819 by John Morison Duncan (1823)
"The older blacks who headed the procession carried short batoons, some of them
wore cocked hats, cockades, epaulets, silk sashes, and top boots;—after them ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... and we hear of no judge, who felt such jealousy for the supposed duty of his
office, as to interpose between the batoons of the champions ..."
4. Book of Martyrs: Or, A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant by Amos Blanchard, John Foxe (1844)
"Victor was then again put to the rack, unmercifully beuten with batoons, and
again sent to prison. Being a third time examined concerning his religion, ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John BRITTON, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1803)
"P- 3)1, wherein it ii observed, that the batoons, &c. were in the possession •fil»
late Mr. Ralph Hodgson. ..."
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