THYRSUS Synonyms

• a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir

• a short stout club used primarily by policemen

• a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority

• a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette

• a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race

• a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

• a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane

• a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment

• beat with a cane

• a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

• highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh

• a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)

• medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet

• any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere

• a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

• a native or inhabitant of Poland

• one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions

• a linear measure of 16.5 feet

• a square rod of land

• one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere

• one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

• a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

• a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting

• one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated

• propel with a pole

• support on poles

• deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole

• a long thin implement made of metal or wood

• any rod-shaped bacterium

• a linear measure of 16.5 feet

• a square rod of land

• a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light

• a gangster's pistol

• the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter

• a ceremonial or emblematic staff

• personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task

• a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose

• the body of teachers and administrators at a school

• building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration

• a rod carried as a symbol

• (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

• provide with staff

• serve on the staff of

• control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure

• railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock

• a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment

• a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• exchange or give (something) in exchange for

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• make a shift in or exchange of

• cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation

• flog with or as if with a flexible rod

• reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• a rod used by a magician or water diviner

• a thin supple twig or rod

• a ceremonial or emblematic staff

• a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir

• a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose