(music) baton (conductor's stick)

(music) orchestra

leading / lede / leash (e.g. on a dog) / the lead (dance partner) / reed (in a musical instrument)

Read / Reed / Reade / Reid

(sports) to lead (have the highest score, be in first place) / to take the lead

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to shake; (of a hand or flag) to wave; (of a tail) to wag; (of a baseball bat) to swing; to move something back and forth in a circular motion

swing, wield, flourish, wave, shake