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Bat (băt), 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.]
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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.
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2. In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
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3. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
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4. A part of a brick with one whole end; a brickbat.
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5. (Mining) Shale or bituminous shale. Kirwan.
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6. A stroke; a sharp blow. [Colloq. or Slang]
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7. A stroke of work. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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8. Rate of motion; speed. [Colloq.] “A vast host of fowl . . . making at full bat for the North Sea.” Pall Mall Mag.
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9. A spree; a jollification. [Slang, U. S.]
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10. Manner; rate; condition; state of health. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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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 (băt"tĕd); 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; 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, v. t. & i. 1. To bate or flutter, as a hawk. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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2. To wink. [Local, U. S. & Prov Eng.]
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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.] (Zo&ö;l.) 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.
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Silent bats in drowsy clusters cling. Goldsmith.
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Bat tick (Zo&ö;l.), 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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