bat
bat
- n nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- n (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
he was at bat when it happened
he got four hits in four at-bats - n a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
- n the club used in playing cricket
a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting - n a club used for hitting a ball in various games
- v strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
bat the ball - v wink briefly
bat one's eyelids - v have a turn at bat
Jones bats first, followed by Martinez - v use a bat
Who's batting? - v beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- Naturalist Leonard Dubkin, who once wrote a nature column for the Chicago Tribune, is probably the only man who ever lost his heart to an albino bat.
- Scientists have known for years that bats navigate by sonar.
- In the long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill reputea companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster.