Bat
Bat (bat) , noun
[Old English batte, botte, Anglo-Saxon batt; perhaps from the Celtic; compare Ir. bat, bata, stick, staff; but compare also French 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.
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. — Kirwan
6.
A stroke; a sharp blow. [Colloquial or Slang]
7.
A stroke of work. [Scottish & Provincial English]
8.
Rate of motion; speed. [Colloquial]
A vast host of fowl... making at full bat for the North Sea.
9.
A spree; a jollification. [Slang, United States]
10.
Manner; rate; condition; state of health. [Scottish & Provincial English]
Collocations (1)
Bat bolt (Machinery) , a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. — Knight
Bat (bat"ted) , transitive verb
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. — Holland
Bat , intransitive verb
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 (that is he got safe hits in 27 percent of his official turns at bat).
Bat , verb, transitive and intransitive
1.
To bate or flutter, as a hawk. [Obsolete or Provincial English]
2.
To wink. [Local, United States & Prov English]
Bat , noun
[Corrupt. from Old English back, backe, balke; compare Danish aften-bakke (aften evening), Swedish natt-backa (natt night), Icelandic leer-blaka (leer leather), Icelandic blaka to flutter.]
(Zoology) 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.
Collocations (1)
Bat tick (Zoology) , a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.
Bat , noun
[Siamese.]
Same as Tical, n., 1.