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bat

  • noun
  • /bæt/

Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

Other meanings

  1. A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon

  2. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.

A kind of

  • placental

Kinds of bat

  • fruit bat
  • carnivorous bat

Example sentences

  • “Playing cricket requires a bat and a ball.”

    Tatoeba · PrasantaHembram · CC0

  • “Have you ever eaten a bat?”

    Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

  • “I've got bats in my brain.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old Norse "leðrblaka" ((leðr)blaka).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “bat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.