Definition/Meaning of bat

• English - Noun: bat (plural bats) Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera , usually small and nocturnal , insectivorous or frugivorous . 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01: The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he…
• English - Verb: bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted) (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat. We batted a few ideas around. He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack. (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket , baseball and softball , as opposed to field ing.…
• English - References: ^ "batman." Dictionary . com . Dictionary . com Unabridged (v 1 .1). Random House , Inc . 2009. ^ “bat” in Douglas Harper , Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
• English - Anagrams: abt ATB tab TBA
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Variant of Middle English bakke , of North Germanic origin (akin to Danish aftenbakke and Swedish nattbacka , both now dialectal). Swedish also has nattblacka , and Icelandic has leðurblaka , in which the second element is a derivative of blaka (“to flap”), but it is unclear whether this word is also the source of bakke, backa, etc. Etymology 2. From Middle English bat , batt e,…