bat

Meaning

Noun

1. Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
2. An old woman.

Verb

1. To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
2. To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
3. To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
4. (obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.

Verb

1. To flutter
2. To wink.
3. To flit quickly from place to place.

Concepts

bat

club

stick

cudgel

racket

flying fox

truncheon

bludgeon

hit

racquet

staff

flutter

chiropteran

lathi

baton

cane

billy

shillelagh

at-bat

clobber

cream

drub

lick

thrash

cricket bat

squash racket

squash racquet

flap

war club

fruit bat

bird

beat

play

paddle

devil

ghost

beating

dasher

twitch

Atut mask

pole

rod

rap

stike

wink

blackjack

shillalah

slam

slog

slug

batsman

outing

party

rearmouse

battery

black flying fox

night bird

mace

closer

closer brick

glut

bod

clay plug

plug of clay

broken brick

crushed brick

rubble

lead bat

lead wedge

oar

dike

dyke

bang

bash

beat out

belt

carom

clout

defeat

drive

kill

knock

mint

nail

ram

shoot

slap

smite

stamp out

strike

swing

thump out

top

whip

whop

worst

blink

nictate

go

shift

turn

mallet

microbat

baseball

noctule

flittermouse

packsaddle

saddle

pound

lacrosse stick

small

long-eared

masturbate

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bæt/

Etymology

Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse (leðr)blaka (literally “(leather) flapper”), from leðr + blaka (“to flap”).
Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ (literally “night-flapper”).