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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



... him: distance and separation were to make no difference whatever in their friendship. This compact had been made on one of their last evenings at Rugby. They were sitting together in the six-form room, Tom splicing the handle of a favourite cricket bat, and Arthur reading a volume of Raleigh's works. The Doctor had lately been alluding to the "History of the World," and had excited the curiosity of the active-minded amongst his pupils about the great navigator, statesman, soldier, author, and fine gentleman. So Raleigh's works were seized on by ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... for a bat, I had exchanged with my bunkie, Bill Hanson. 'Let him look,' thinks I; and he ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers
... of course that was beyond him; he was too old. It was beautiful to see Joan handle the foils, but the old man was a bad failure. He was afraid of the things, and skipped and dodged and scrambled around like a woman who has lost her mind on account of the arrival of a bat. He was of no good as an exhibition. But if La Hire had only come in, that would have been another matter. Those two fenced often; I saw them many times. True, Joan was easily his master, but it made a good show for all that, for La Hire was a grand swordsman. What a swift creature Joan was! ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 • Mark Twain
... that entered by the open windows, were to be found here all summer long, sleeping with extended wings upon the whitewashed walls. And often the most exciting incident of the day happened just as I was falling asleep; sometimes then an unwelcome bat found his way into the room and circled wildly about the lighted candles; or an enormous moth buzzed in and we would chase him with a cobweb-broom. Or again a storm descended upon us and the great trees lashed their branches against the ...
— The Story of a Child • Pierre Loti
... be exchanged, the foregoing article should be void, so far as that exchange extended; that care should be taken for the subsistence of the British troops till they should be embarked; that all officers should deliver up their carriages, bat-horses, &c, but that their baggage should be free from molestation; that the officers should not be separated from the men, and should be quartered according to their rank; that all the troops, of whatever country ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan


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