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Bat   /bæt/   Listen
Bat

noun
1.
Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.  Synonym: chiropteran.
2.
(baseball) a turn trying to get a hit.  Synonym: at-bat.  "He got four hits in four at-bats"
3.
A small racket with a long handle used for playing squash.  Synonyms: squash racket, squash racquet.
4.
The club used in playing cricket.  Synonym: cricket bat.
5.
A club used for hitting a ball in various games.
verb
(past & past part. batted; pres. part. batting)
1.
Strike with, or as if with a baseball bat.
2.
Wink briefly.  Synonym: flutter.
3.
Have a turn at bat.
4.
Use a bat.
5.
Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.  Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash.



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"Bat" Quotes from Famous Books



... of anything I ever had the brains to think up when I was a boy," laughed the man. "That's a good one! It sounded for all the world as though someone had smashed one of my windows with a brick-bat. Ha, ha, ha! That's an all right one! I'd be willing to shake hands with the boy who put up that joke on me. How about my own Timmy, I wonder? No; Timmy wouldn't be smart enough for this one—-but he may have smart friends. I'll look up ...
— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock

... powers, sir, no, not a bit of it,' replied the Patlander. 'The devil a bit would Pat O'Leary wish to live alone in any place, bat I was just thinking, master Henry, that if you and Miss Hamilton, bless the light of her blessed black eyes, would only consint to be married, and live upon this pretty, convanient little island, what a nate, clane, comfortable serving man you might ...
— Blackbeard - Or, The Pirate of Roanoke. • B. Barker

... in fine style, and almost instantly a mild voice from the crowd asked if he knew "Casey at the Bat." Not in the least distressed by this woeful commentary, Mr. Rushcroft cheerfully, obligingly tackled the tragic ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon

... the marble bench no sound came to him save the chirring of insects in the grass, the squeak of a bat or twitter of a sleepy bird. One might never have thought the place to be in the heart of a house whose inmates numbered five hundred souls and more, so still it was, so seemingly remote from all human noise and tumult. The combined effects of the silence and the ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor

... Her grandfather, Bat Carpenter, was an ambitious slave; he dug ore and bought his freedom, then bought his wife by paying $50.00 a year to her master for her. She continued to work on the farm of her own master for a ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration


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