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Bat   /bæt/   Listen
noun
Bat  n.  
1.
A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
2.
In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
3.
A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
4.
A part of a brick with one whole end; a brickbat.
5.
(Mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
6.
A stroke; a sharp blow. (Colloq. or Slang)
7.
A stroke of work. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
8.
Rate of motion; speed. (Colloq.) "A vast host of fowl... making at full bat for the North Sea."
9.
A spree; a jollification. (Slang, U. S.)
10.
Manner; rate; condition; state of health. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly.


Bat  n.  (Zool.) One of the Chiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Chiroptera and Vampire. "Silent bats in drowsy clusters cling."
Bat tick (Zool.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.


Bat  n.  Same as Tical, n., 1.


verb
Bat  v. t. & v. i.  
1.
To bate or flutter, as a hawk. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
To wink. (Local, U. S. & Prov Eng.)


Bat  v. t.  (past & past part. batted; pres. part. batting)  To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.


Bat  v. i.  To use a bat, as in a game of baseball; when used with a numerical postmodifier it indicates a baseball player's performance (as a decimal) at bat; as, he batted.270 in 1993 (i.e. he got safe hits in 27 percent of his official turns at bat).





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"Bat" Quotes from Famous Books



... wiping away the really starting tears with her white lace cloak. "I told you the elegant Constantine was the lord of my heart; and you have seduced him from me! Till you came, he was so respectful, so tender, so devoted! Bat I am rightly used! I ought to have carried my ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... come the road-kids, sporting an infinite variety of monicas. For example, the following, whom here and there I have encountered: Buck Kid, Blind Kid, Midget Kid, Holy Kid, Bat Kid, Swift Kid, Cookey Kid, Monkey Kid, Iowa Kid, Corduroy Kid, Orator Kid (who could tell how it happened), and Lippy Kid (who was insolent, ...
— The Road • Jack London
... has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... George Washington, vol. 1, p. 140, New York, 1949. Washington had written his brother John on June 14 and given his opinion that they should "retrench the wagons and increase the number of bat horses."] ...
— Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 • Don H. Berkebile
... as blind as a bat!' commented Elizabeth. 'Can't you see she's doin' that to 'ide 'er feelings—so that you'll never guess 'ow 'er 'eart is ...
— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick


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