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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

... chapel-cloister wall, being still extant; and the same writer reproduces as a frontispiece to his "opusculum" an old engraving bearing date 1743, in which the wicket appears as a skeleton hurdle about two feet wide by one foot high, while the bat is the Saxon crec or crooked stick, with which the game was originally played, and from which the name ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various

... for the wickets, armed with pads and gloves and bat, I did not feel happy; still, I was in hopes I might at least succeed in "breaking my duck's egg," which was more than could be said for ...

— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... the jetty gradual she was hauled: Then one the tiller took, And chewed, and spat upon his hand, and bawled; And one the canvas shook Forth like a mouldy bat; and one, with nods And smiles, lay on the bowsprit end, and called And cursed the Harbour-master ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey

... snapped John. "Drag out these facts that you are so anxious to have recognized. Let's have a good look at whatever it is that makes you rough-neck sons of toil so superior to us lily-fingered employers. Go to the bat." ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

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