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BASTON. An old French word, which signifies a staff, or club, In some old English statutes the servants or officers of the wardens of the Fleet are so called, because they attended the king's courts with a red staff. Vide Tipstaff. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| An unusual chipless cutter from Baston Extrusionstechnik GmbH in Germany (represented here by Automated Extrusion Tooling and Design, Ramsey, Minn. Denison MS, Zhao B, Baston DS, Clark GC, Murata H, Han D-H. The poem features one of Castro's greatest strengths, his ease with mixing languages as the poem follows the "calm calabash" on a journey "magically opening a venous path /curled like a juju-man's caduceus / us baston de Babalawo" (Babalawo is a Yoruba priest)--a journey that takes the calabash and her possessor "way back home. |
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