From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bat \Bat\, n. [Siamese.]
Same as {Tical}, n., 1.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bat \Bat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Batted} (b[a^]t"t[e^]d); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Batting}.]
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
--Holland.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bat \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bat \Bat\ (b[a^]t), 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bat \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bat \Bat\, n. [Corrupt. from OE. back, backe, balke; cf. Dan.
aften-bakke (aften evening), Sw. natt-backa (natt night),
Icel. le[eth]r-blaka (le[eth]r 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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From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]:
BAT
Baby Advanced Technology [board] (AT)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]:
BAT
Bouquet Association Table (DVB)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]:
BAT
Browser-based Application Toolkit (IBM, WWW)
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
bat /baːt/
begged
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