mace

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A heavy fighting club.
2. 2
   noun A ceremonial form of this weapon.
3. 3
   noun A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
4. 4
   noun An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
5. 5
   noun A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
6. 6
   noun A billiard cue.
7. 7
   verb To hit someone or something with a mace.