Bat /(băt)/

Bat

n.
  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. Shale or bituminous shale. (Mining)
  3. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
  4. A part of a brick with one whole end. See Brickbat.
  5. In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
  6. A stroke; a sharp blow. [Colloq. or Slang]
  7. A stroke of work. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
  8. Rate of motion; speed. [Colloq.]
  9. A spree; a jollification. [Slang, U. S.]
  10. Manner; rate; condition; state of health. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Phrases & Compounds
Bat bolt
a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly.

Bat

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Batted; p. pr. & vb. n. Batting

  1. To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.

Bat

v. i.
  1. 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).

Bat

v. t. & i.
  1. To bate or flutter, as a hawk. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. To wink. [Local, U. S. & Prov Eng.]

Bat

n.
  1. 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. (Zool.)
    Silent bats in drowsy clusters cling.

Phrases & Compounds
Bat tick
a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

Bat

n.
  1. Same as Tical, n., 1.