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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 (băttĕd); 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.] (Zool.) 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 (Zool.), 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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