Wand
Wand , noun
[Of Scand. origin; compare Icelandic vondr, akin to Danish vaand, Gothic wandus; perhaps originally, a pliant twig, and akin to English wind to turn.]
1.
A small stick; a rod; a verge.
With good smart blows of a wand on his back.
2.
(a) A staff of authority.
Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment.
(b)
A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Picus bore a buckler in his hand;
His other waved a long divining wand.
Collocations (1)
Wand of peace (Scots Law) , a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for remedy of law. — Burrill