A thin, straight, hand-held stick made of wood, stone, ivory, or metal, with ceremonial or magical significance.
In fiction, it is generally used as a magical tool to cast or channel magic just like a magical staff. Differences between a stave and a wand include a staff being larger (several feet long, about the length of a walking stick and held one- or two-handed) than a wand (usually shorter than two feet, held in one hand or a few fingers) and that a wand is often used in less "serious" works especially by fairies or fairy godmothers and can imply a playful form of magic.
