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• enPR: băt, IPA^(key): /bæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

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

bat (plural bats)

1. Any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation.
   • 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 20230794, 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 struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

   • 2012, Suemedha Sood, (bbc.co.uk) Travelwise: Texas love bats [sic]

     As well as being worth millions of dollars to the Texan agriculture industry, these mammals are worth millions of dollars to the state’s tourism industry. Texas is home to the world’s largest known bat colony (in Comal County), and the world’s largest urban bat colony (in Austin). Bat watching is a common activity, with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department offering more bat-viewing sites than anywhere else in the US.

2. (derogatory) An old woman.

• (flying mammal): chiropter, chiropteran, flindermouse, flittermouse, fluttermouse, flying-mouse, rearmouse/reremouse

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

• bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chiroptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chiroptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

A baseball player swinging a baseball bat to hit a baseball

From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”).

bat (plural bats)

1. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
2. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.

   You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?

3. (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.[1]
4. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.

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5. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
6. A part of a brick with one whole end.
7. A stroke; a sharp blow.
8. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) A stroke of work.
9. (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
   • Pall Mall Magazine

     a vast host of fowl […] making at full bat for the North Sea.

10. (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
11. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.

• (two-up): kip, stick, kylie, lannet

bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

1. (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.

   He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.

   We batted a few ideas around.

2. (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
3. (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.

   The cat batted at the toy.

Possibly a variant of bate.

bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

1. (transitive) To flutter: bat one's eyelashes.
2. (US, Britain, dialectal) To wink.
3. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.

Most commonly used in the phrase bat an eye, and variants thereof.

• bat an eye, bat an eyelash, bat an eyelid

Borrowed from French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, form of *bastāre (“to carry”), from Late Greek *bastân, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to lift, carry”).[1]

Cognate to baton.[2]

bat (plural bats)

1. (obsolete) A packsaddle.

• batman

bat

1. Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”).

• ABT, ATB, B.T.A., TBA, Tab, abt, abt., tab

• batu

From Late Latin battō, from Latin battuō. Compare Daco-Romanian bate, bat.

bat (third-person singular present indicative bati/bate, past participle bãtutã)

1. I beat, hit, strike.
2. I defeat.

• (beat): agudescu
• (defeat): azvingu

• batiri/batire
• bãtut, bãtutã
• strãbat

Compared by Eduardo Orduña and Joan Ferrer to Iberian ban (“one”).[1][2]

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bat

1. a, an
   • Musu bat — A kiss.

bat

1. one
   • Sagar bat eta lau laranja — One apple and four oranges.

• batasun (“unity”)
• bakoitz (“each”)
• batzu (“some”)

• Rhymes: -at

bat

1. third-person singular present indicative form of batre
2. second-person singular imperative form of batre

• balat

bat

1. a type of sea cucumber

• IPA^(key): /ba/

bat

1. third-person singular present indicative of battre

• t.a.b.

• IPA^(key): [baːt]

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• Rhymes: -aːt

bat

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of bitten
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of bitten

bat (plural bede)

1. arm

• IPA^(key): /bat/

From Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.

bat n

1. bath

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: bad
• Limburgish: baad

From Old Dutch *bat, *bet, from Proto-Germanic *batiz.

bat

1. better; comparative degree of wel

   Synonym: beter

• bet

• Dutch: bet- only in betovergroot- (“great grand-”) and betweter (“know-it-all”)

See the etymology of the main entry.

bat

1. first-person and third-person singular past indicative of bidden

• “bat (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bat (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “bet (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English batt, from Celtic; influenced by Old French batte.

• batt, batte, bot

• IPA^(key): /bat/, /bɔt/

bat (plural battes or botten)

1. A mace, bat, or morningstar (blunt weapon)
2. (rare) A pole or stick used for other
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A strike or hit from a weapon.
4. (rare, Late Middle English) A clump of soft material.

• English: bat, batt
• Scots: bat

• “bat (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.

From Old English bāt.

bat

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

From Proto-Germanic *baitaz. Related to Old Norse beit. Old Norse bátr (Icelandic bátur) is a borrowing from Old English; German Boot and Dutch boot are loans from the Middle English descendant.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːt/

bāt m or f (nominative plural bātas)

1. boat

• Middle English: bot, bate, bat
  • English: boat (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: bate, bait
  • → Dutch: boot
    • Afrikaans: boot
  • → German: Boot
  • → Low German: Boot
  • → Plautdietsch: Boot
  • → North Frisian: böötj
  • → Saterland Frisian: Boot
  • → West Frisian: boat
  • → Catalan: bot
  • → Galician: bote
• → Old Norse: bátr (see there for further descendants)
• → Old French: batel (see there for further descendants)
• → Irish: bád
• → Scottish Gaelic: bàta
• → Manx: baatey
• → Latin: battus

• bot
• bote

Borrowed from Old English bāt.

bat m (oblique plural batz, nominative singular batz, nominative plural bat)

1. boat

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bat)

bat

1. third-person plural imperative of is

• IPA^(key): /bat/

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From Proto-Slavic *batъ.

bat m inan (diminutive bacik)

1. whip (rod)

   Synonym: bicz

• (noun) batog
• (verb) batożyć

bat m inan

1. bateau (type of boat)

From Thai บาท (bàat).

bat m inan

1. baht (official currency of Thailand)

• bat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

bat

1. first-person singular present indicative of bate
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of bate
3. third-person plural present indicative of bate

From Proto-Slavic *batъ.

• IPA^(key): /bât/

bȁt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̏т)

1. mallet
2. helve hammer

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (bastı) (Turkish bastı), from [script needed] (basmak) (Turkish basmak).

• IPA^(key): /bâːt/

bȃt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑т)

1. The tramp of heavy footsteps, as in a military march
   • 1939, Čedomir Minderović, Crven je istok i zapad:

     Napred, sve bliže i bliže, / Čuje se koraka bat. / Glas milijona se diže: / Dole fašizam i rat!

     Forward, ever closer and closer, / the tramp of footsteps is heard. / The voice of millions is raised: / Down with fascism and war!

2. (rare) The tramp of horses’ hooves

• IPA^(key): /bâːt/

bȃt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑т)

1. Alternative form of bȁht

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bat m (plural bats)

1. (baseball) bat (act of batting)
2. Misspelling of baht.

bat

1. sink (imperative)

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /ɓätʰ/

bat

1. (intransitive) to go

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

bat f

1. excrement
2. dirt, uncleanliness

bat m (definite batn, plural baat)

1. Alternative spelling of båt

bat (plural batoʼob)

1. hail, hailstone

From Proto-Tai *peːtᴰ (“eight”), from Middle Chinese 八 (MC pˠɛt̚, “eight”). Cognate with Lao ແປດ (pǣt), Lü ᦶᦔᧆᧈ (ṗaed¹), Shan ပႅတ်ႇ (pàet), Thai แปด (bpɛ̀ɛt).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /paːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: bat⁷
• Hyphenation: bat

bat (old orthography bat)

1. eight