Baton

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

History and politics

Knowledge cost

3

In collections

1 player has it in their collection.

What Wikipedia says

A baton (also truncheon, nightstick, billy club, billystick, cosh, lathi, or simply stick) is a roughly cylindrical club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a compliance tool and defensive weapon by law-enforcement officers, correctional staff, security guards and military personnel.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Baton (law enforcement)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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