[wand] n [ME, slender stick, fr. ON vondr; prob. akin to OE windan to wind, twist--more at wind] (15c) 1: a slender staff carried in a procession: verge
2: a slender rod used by conjurers and magicians
3: a slat
6. feet by
2. 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; esp: 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