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Bat

noun

Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. Synonym: chiropteran.

(baseball) a turn trying to get a hit. Synonym: at-bat. "He got four hits in four at-bats"

A small racket with a long handle used for playing squash. Synonyms: squash racket, squash racquet.

The club used in playing cricket. Synonym: cricket bat.

A club used for hitting a ball in various games.

verb

(past & past part. batted; pres. part. batting)

Strike with, or as if with a baseball bat.

Wink briefly. Synonym: flutter.

Have a turn at bat.

Use a bat.

Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight. Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash.

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"Bat" Quotes from Famous Books

... his head and glanced from the fluttering signal to his idle bat, that lay, with slate, and book, and other boyish property, upon the table in the room. And then he laid him softly down once more, and again clasped his little arms around the old man's neck. The two old friends and companions—for such they were, though they were man and child—held each ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... of the fairy-songs in the Tempest and the Midsummer Night's Dream; Ariel riding through the twilight on the bat, or sucking in the bells of flowers with the bee; or the little bower-women of Titania, driving the spiders from the couch of the ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4) - Contributions To The Edinburgh Review • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... the evening radiance thro' the sky, The sober twilight dimly darkens round; In short quick circles the shrill bat flits by, And the slow ...

— Poems • Robert Southey

... le' me alone!' gasped Ted, struggling and writhing with all his power; but the flailing went on, bat—bat—bat—with blows that might have disturbed an elephant. Ted's feelings became too strong for words; he started to howl, and the night re-echoed with the cries of the outraged bushranger. The rest of the gang stood mute, ...

— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson

... all spread upon the stones and the rock of that place; and surely it did be as that it were leathern, and made somewise as a bat doth be of this age, in that it did ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

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