1. A stout wooden stick; a cudgel.
2. A blow, such as one delivered with a stick.
3. baseball A rounded, often wooden club, wider and heavier at the hitting end and tapering at the handle, used to strike the ball.
4. sports A club used in cricket, having a broad, flat-surfaced hitting end and a distinct, narrow handle.
5. sports the racket used in various games, such as table tennis or racquets.
6. to hit with or as if with a bat.
7. baseball to cause (a run) to be scored while at bat: batted the winning run in with a double.
8. baseball to have (a certain percentage) as a batting average.
9. informal to discuss or consider at length: bat an idea around.
10. baseball to use a bat.
11. baseball to have a turn at bat.
12. slang to wander about aimlessly.
13. bat out informal to produce in a hurried or informal manner: batted out thank-you notes all morning.
14. at bat sports taking one's turn to bat, as in baseball or cricket.
15. go to bat for to give assistance to; defend.
16. off the bat without hesitation; immediately: they responded right off the bat.
17. any of various nocturnal flying mammals of the order chiroptera, having membranous wings that extend from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail and anatomical adaptations for echolocation, by which they navigate and hunt prey.
18. have bats in (one's) belfry to behave in an eccentric, bizarre manner.
19. to wink or flutter: bat one's eyelashes.
20. not bat an eye informal to show no emotion; appear unaffected: the reporter didn't bat an eyelash while reading the gruesome news.
21. slang A binge; a spree.

1. any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation. they look like a mouse with membranous wings extending from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail. altogether, there are about 1,000 bat species in the world.
2. an old woman.
3. A low whore: so called from moving out like a bat in the dusk of the evening.
4. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
5. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
6. : the piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them. (reference: Sidney J. baker, the australian language, second edition, 1966, chapter xi section 3, page 242.)
7. to hit with a bat.
8. to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
9. to strike or swipe as though with a bat
10. packsaddle
11. to flutter: bat one's eyelashes.

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. shale or bituminous shale.
6. A stroke; a sharp blow.
7. A stroke of work.
8. rate of motion; speed.
9. A spree; a jollification.
10. manner; rate; condition; state of health.
11. 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.
12. same as tical, n., 1.
13. to bate or flutter, as a hawk.
14. to wink.
15. 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.
16. to strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.

1. to beat; hit; strike.
2. in base-ball and similar games, to strike the ball: as, he bats well.
3. to bate or flutter, as in the phrase to bat the eyes, that is, wink.
4. A heavy stick or club; formerly, a walking-stick.
5. the wooden club with which the players in base-ball, cricket, and similar games bat or drive the ball.
6. A batsman or batter.
7. A blow as with a bat or baton: as, he received a bat in the face.
8. A tool made of beech, used by plumbers in dressing and flatting sheet-lead.
9. A rammer used by founders.
10. A blade used for beating or scutching hemp or flax.
11. A piece of brick having one end entire; hence, any portion of a brick; a brickbat.
12. A kind of sun-dried brick.
13. shale; hardened clay, but not fire-clay: same as bind, 2. also spelled batt.
14. in hat-making, a felted mass of fur, or of hair and wool. two such masses are required to form the body of a hat. also spelled batt.
15. A continuous wad of cotton from the batting-machine, ready for carding; also, a sheet of cotton wadding or batting. see batting.
16. in ceramics: A flexible sheet of gelatin used in transferring impressions to the biscuit.
17. A shelf or slab of baked clay used to support pieces of biscuit which have been painted, and are being fired again. see enamel-kiln.
18. rate; speed; style.
19. A wing-handed, wing-footed flying mammal, of the order chiroptera (which see).
20. A pack-saddle: only in composition, as bathorse, batman, etc.
21. see batz.
22. same as tical.
23. A measure of land formerly used in south wales; a perch of 11 feet square.
24. same as bath.
25. A paddle or blade in a coal-pulverizer. these bats are carried on rapidly rotating arms, and break the coal into very fine particles.
26. plural heavy laced boots with hobnails.
27. low-cut laced shoes formerly worn by women.
28. boots in bad repair.
29. A siamese silver coin, the same as the tical.

1. a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
2. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
3. have a turn at bat
4. (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
5. the club used in playing cricket
6. use a bat
7. a club used for hitting a ball in various games
8. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
9. wink briefly
10. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat