wand

wand

noun \ˈwänd\

Definition of WAND

1

: a slender staff carried in a procession : verge

2

: a slender rod used by conjurers and magicians

3

: a slat six feet by two inches used as a target in archery; also : a narrow strip of paper pasted vertically on a target face

4

: any of various pipelike devices; especially : the rigid tube between the hose and the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner

5

: a handheld device used to enter information (as from a bar code) into a computer

Examples of WAND

1. The cashier used a wand to scan the bar code.

Origin of WAND

Middle English, slender stick, from Old Norse vǫndr; probably akin to Old English windan to wind, twist — more at wind

First Known Use: 13th century

Rhymes with WAND

blond, bond, fond, frond, Gond, pond, rand, sonde, yond