Words that rhyme with baton

• skeleton 2
  n 1: something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel" 2: a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet" [syn: skeleton, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard] 3: the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal [syn: skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletale] 4: the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" [syn: skeleton, skeletal frame, frame, underframe]
• aileron 0
  n 1: an airfoil that controls lateral motion
• an 0
  n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
• anon 0
  adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon" 2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
• antiproton 0
  n 1: an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton
• argon 0
  n 1: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere [syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18]
• asyndeton 0
  n 1: the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
• australopithecine 0
  adj 1: of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus n 1: any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago
• automaton 0
  n 1: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed" [syn: automaton, zombi, zombie] 2: a mechanism that can move automatically [syn: automaton, robot, golem]
• axon 0
  n 1: long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron [syn: axon, axone]
• batten 0
  n 1: stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber [syn: batting, batten] 2: a strip fixed to something to hold it firm v 1: furnish with battens; "batten ships" [syn: batten, batten down, secure] 2: secure with battens; "batten down a ship's hatches"
• beaten 0
  adj 1: formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold" 2: much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from the beaten path"
• begotten 0
  adj 1: (of offspring) generated by procreation; "naturally begotten child"
• bonbon 0
  n 1: a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
• brawn 0
  n 1: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]
• brighten 0
  v 1: make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room" [syn: brighten, lighten up, lighten] [ant: darken] 2: become clear; "The sky cleared after the storm" [syn: clear up, clear, light up, brighten] [ant: cloud, overcast]
• button 0
  n 1: a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes 2: an electrical switch operated by pressing; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk" [syn: push button, push, button] 3: any of various plant parts that resemble buttons 4: a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment; "they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate" 5: a female sexual organ homologous to the penis [syn: clitoris, clit, button] 6: a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism [syn: release, button] 7: any artifact that resembles a button v 1: provide with buttons; "button a shirt" 2: fasten with buttons; "button the dress" [ant: unbutton]
• cabochon 0
  n 1: a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets
• canton 0
  n 1: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port [syn: Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton] 2: a small administrative division of a country v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet, canton] 2: divide into cantons, of a country
• captain 0
  n 1: an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant 2: the naval officer in command of a military ship [syn: captain, skipper] 3: a policeman in charge of a precinct [syn: captain, police captain, police chief] 4: an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship [syn: master, captain, sea captain, skipper] 5: the leader of a group of people; "a captain of industry" [syn: captain, chieftain] 6: the pilot in charge of an airship [syn: captain, senior pilot] 7: a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers [syn: captain, headwaiter, maitre d'hotel, maitre d'] v 1: be the captain of a sports team
• carillon 0
  n 1: set of bells hung in a bell tower 2: playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower [syn: bell ringing, carillon, carillon playing]
• carton 0
  n 1: the quantity contained in a carton [syn: carton, cartonful] 2: a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top
• certain 0
  adj 1: definite but not specified or identified; "set aside a certain sum each week"; "to a certain degree"; "certain breeds do not make good pets"; "certain members have not paid their dues"; "a certain popular teacher"; "a certain Mrs. Jones" 2: having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured; "felt certain of success"; "was sure (or certain) she had seen it"; "was very sure in his beliefs"; "sure of her friends" [syn: certain(p), sure] [ant: incertain, uncertain, unsure] 3: established beyond doubt or question; definitely known; "what is certain is that every effect must have a cause"; "it is certain that they were on the bus"; "his fate is certain"; "the date for the invasion is certain" [ant: uncertain] 4: certain to occur; destined or inevitable; "he was certain to fail"; "his fate is certain"; "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes"- Benjamin Franklin; "he faced certain death"; "sudden but sure regret"; "he is sure to win" [syn: certain, sure] [ant: uncertain] 5: established irrevocably; "his fate is sealed" [syn: sealed, certain] [ant: uncertain, unsealed] 6: reliable in operation or effect; "a quick and certain remedy"; "a sure way to distinguish the two"; "wood dust is a sure sign of termites" [syn: certain, sure] 7: exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance; "be certain to disconnect the iron when you are through"; "be sure to lock the doors" [syn: certain, sure]
• charlatan 0
  n 1: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes [syn: mountebank, charlatan]
• chiffon 0
  n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
• chitin 0
  n 1: a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi
• chon 0
  n 1: 100 chon equal 1 won in South Korea 2: 100 chon equal 1 won in North Korea
• con 0
  adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con" [ant: pro] n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro] 2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird] 3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]
• consign 0
  v 1: commit forever; commit irrevocably 2: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" [syn: consign, charge] 3: send to an address
• cosmopolitan 0
  adj 1: growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: cosmopolitan, widely distributed] [ant: endemic] 2: composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks" [ant: provincial] 3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world- wide] n 1: a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite]
• cotton 0
  n 1: soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state [syn: cotton, cotton fiber, cotton wool] 2: fabric woven from cotton fibers 3: erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers [syn: cotton, cotton plant] 4: thread made of cotton fibers v 1: take a liking to; "cotton to something"
• countersign 0
  n 1: a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password" [syn: password, watchword, word, parole, countersign] 2: a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed [syn: countersignature, countersign] v 1: add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity; "You must countersign on this line of the contract"
• crayon 0
  n 1: writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn: crayon, wax crayon] v 1: write, draw, or trace with a crayon
• cretin 0
  n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard]
• cretonne 0
  n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
• croissant 0
  n 1: very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll [syn: crescent roll, croissant]
• croton 0
  n 1: grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant [syn: croton, Codiaeum variegatum] 2: tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil [syn: croton, Croton tiglium]
• crouton 0
  n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads
• curtain 0
  n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] 2: any barrier to communication or vision; "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees" v 1: provide with drapery; "curtain the bedrooms"
• cyclotron 0
  n 1: an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
• dacron 0
  n 1: a kind of polyester fabric [syn: Dacron, Terylene]
• dawn 0
  n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning] 3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place] 2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned" 3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
• decagon 0
  n 1: a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles
• demijohn 0
  n 1: large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork
• denouement 0
  n 1: the outcome of a complex sequence of events 2: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
• dishearten 0
  v 1: take away the enthusiasm of [syn: dishearten, put off] [ant: cheer, embolden, hearten, recreate]
• don 0
  n 1: a Spanish gentleman or nobleman 2: teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford) [syn: preceptor, don] 3: the head of an organized crime family [syn: don, father] 4: Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu 5: a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov [syn: Don, Don River] 6: a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename; "Don Roberto" v 1: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on, get into, don, assume]
• drawn 0
  adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
• endoskeleton 0
  n 1: the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates)
• enlighten 0
  v 1: make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal" [syn: enlighten, edify] 2: give spiritual insight to; in religion [syn: enlighten, irradiate] 3: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate]
• ensign 0
  n 1: a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade 2: an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality [syn: national flag, ensign] 3: colors flown by a ship to show its nationality
• exoskeleton 0
  n 1: the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs
• fatten 0
  v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
• fawn 0
  n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn] 2: a young deer v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up] 3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
• flatten 0
  v 1: make flat or flatter; "flatten a road"; "flatten your stomach with these exercises" 2: become flat or flatter; "The landscape flattened" [syn: flatten, flatten out] 3: lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: flatten, drop] [ant: sharpen]
• foregone 0
  adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone]
• foreshorten 0
  v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate] 2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
• forgotten 0
  adj 1: not noticed inadvertently; "her aching muscles forgotten she danced all night"; "he was scolded for his forgotten chores" [syn: disregarded, forgotten]
• frighten 0
  v 1: cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" [syn: frighten, fright, scare, affright] 2: drive out by frightening
• frostbitten 0
  adj 1: injured by freezing or partial freezing; "frostbitten fingers"; "frostbitten grapes unsalable as fresh fruit"
• gluten 0
  n 1: a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough
• glutton 0
  n 1: a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman] 2: musteline mammal of northern Eurasia [syn: glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine]
• gone 0
  adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)] 2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone] 3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] 4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"
• graviton 0
  n 1: a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles
• handwritten 0
  adj 1: written by hand
• hearten 0
  v 1: give encouragement to [syn: cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden] [ant: dishearten, put off]
• heighten 0
  v 1: become more extreme; "The tension heightened" [syn: heighten, rise] 2: make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity; "heightened interest" 3: increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" [syn: enhance, heighten, raise] 4: increase the height of; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars" 5: make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision" [syn: sharpen, heighten] 6: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, compound, heighten, deepen]
• hyperbaton 0
  n 1: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')
• internecine 0
  adj 1: (of conflict) within a group or organization; "an internecine feud among proxy holders" 2: characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides; "internecine war"
• ion 0
  n 1: a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
• john 0
  n 1: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] 2: youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216) [syn: John, King John, John Lackland] 3: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation [syn: John, Saint John, St. John, Saint John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, John the Divine] 4: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger, john, trick] 5: the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament [syn: John, Gospel According to John]
• khan 0
  n 1: a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries 2: an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary, caravanserai, khan, caravan inn]
• kindergarten 0
  n 1: a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school
• kitten 0
  n 1: young domestic cat [syn: kitten, kitty] v 1: have kittens; "our cat kittened again this year"
• krypton 0
  n 1: a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air [syn: krypton, Kr, atomic number 36]
• latten 0
  n 1: brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensils
• lawn 0
  n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass
• lepton 0
  n 1: 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece 2: an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0
• lighten 0
  v 1: make more cheerful; "the conversation lightened me up a bit" [syn: lighten, lighten up, buoy up] [ant: weigh down, weigh on] 2: reduce the weight on; make lighter; "she lightened the load on the tired donkey" 3: become more cheerful; "after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit" [syn: lighten, lighten up, buoy up] 4: make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room" [syn: brighten, lighten up, lighten] [ant: darken] 5: become lighter; "The room lightened up" [syn: lighten, lighten up] [ant: darken] 6: alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents" [syn: relieve, lighten]
• marten 0
  n 1: agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels [syn: marten, marten cat]
• metropolitan 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of a metropolis; "metropolitan area" n 1: in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity 2: a person who lives in a metropolis
• micron 0
  n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter [syn: micron, micrometer]
• misbegotten 0
  adj 1: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious]
• mitten 0
  n 1: glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together
• moron 0
  n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard] 2: a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires
• neaten 0
  v 1: put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" [syn: tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away] 2: care for one's external appearance; "He is always well- groomed" [syn: groom, neaten]
• nekton 0
  n 1: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
• neutron 0
  n 1: an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus
• non 0
  adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non]
• nylon 0
  n 1: a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers 2: a synthetic fabric
• oaten 0
  adj 1: of or related to or derived from oats; "oaten bread"
• on 0
  adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" [syn: along, on] 2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?" 3: in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position" [ant: off] 2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant: cancelled, off]
• pattern 0
  n 1: a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" [syn: form, shape, pattern] 2: a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern" [syn: practice, pattern] 3: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors" [syn: design, pattern, figure] 4: something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors" [syn: convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula] 5: a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics" 6: something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" [syn: blueprint, design, pattern] 7: the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted" [syn: traffic pattern, approach pattern, pattern] 8: graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle [syn: radiation pattern, radiation diagram, pattern] v 1: plan or create according to a model or models [syn: model, pattern] 2: form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"
• pawn 0
  n 1: an article deposited as security 2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument, pawn, cat's-paw] 3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank 4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]
• pecan 0
  n 1: wood of a pecan tree 2: tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts [syn: pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis] 3: smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
• phaeton 0
  n 1: large open car seating four with folding top [syn: touring car, phaeton, tourer]
• phlogiston 0
  n 1: a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
• photon 0
  n 1: a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle
• piton 0
  n 1: a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold
• platen 0
  n 1: work table of a machine tool 2: the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type 3: the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike

See also baton definition