baston

noun2

1. •
   (no longer used) 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. — 1587
2. •
   (no longer used) 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.