wand

UK /wɒnd/ US /wɑnd/
noun 5verb 2name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.

Then all of a sudden a number of armed men arranged in companies, and marshalled by officers who held ivory wands in their hands, came running swiftly towards us, having, so far as I could make out, emerged from the face of the precipice like ants from their burrows.

2

A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.

Love is that blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart.

3

An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.

Shop vac serves as blower to force vermiculite in fiber drum up through vacuum-cleaner wand and hose into wall opening

4

A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.

The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.

In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow-wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.

5

A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.

verb

1

To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a handheld metal detector.

2

To use a handheld vibrator (the sex toy) on (a person or body part).

name

1

A surname.

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