Bat (bat), n. [OE. batte, botte, AS. batt; perhaps fr. the Celtic; cf. Ir. bat, bata, stick, staff; but cf. also F. batte a beater (thing), wooden sword, battre to beat.]
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. (Mining)
Shale or bituminous shale. Kirwan.
3.
A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
4.
A part of a brick with one whole end.
Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.
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Bat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Batted (bat"ted); p. pr. & vb. n. Batting.]
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.
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Bat, v. i.
To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
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Bat, n. [Corrupt. from OE. back, backe, balke; cf. Dan. aften-bakke (aften evening), Sw. natt-backa (natt night), Icel. leðr- blaka (leðr leather), Icel. blaka to flutter.] (Zoöl.)
One of the Cheiroptera, 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 Cheiroptera and Vampire.
Silent bats in drowsy clusters cling.
Goldsmith.
Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.
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Bat (?), n. [Siamese.]
Same as Tical, n., 1.
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Bat, v. t. & i.
1.
To bate or flutter, as a hawk. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2.
To wink. [Local, U. S. & Prov Eng.]
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Bat, n.
1.
In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
2.
A stroke; a sharp blow. [Colloq. or Slang]
3.
A stroke of work. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
4.
Rate of motion; speed. [Colloq.] "A vast host of fowl . . . making at full bat for the North Sea." Pall Mall Mag.
5.
A spree; a jollification. [Slang, U. S.]
6.
Manner; rate; condition; state of health. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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