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wand

/wɑnd/ noun B1
  1. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
  2. A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
  3. An instrument shaped like a wand. · curling wand
  4. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
  5. A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.

Plural wands

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“How can he see the guiding wands tonight?
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 198 · C1
From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 199 · C1

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