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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



... 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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