bat, flutter
(verb) wink briefly; “bat one’s eyelids”
cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; “We licked the other team on Sunday!”
bat
(verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; “bat the ball”
bat
(verb) use a bat; “Who’s batting?”
bat
(verb) have a turn at bat; “Jones bats first, followed by Martinez”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
batted
simple past tense and past participle of bat
Source: Wiktionary
Bat, n. Etym: [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.]
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.
2. (Mining)
Definition: Shale or bituminous shale. Kirwan.
3. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
4. A part of a brick with one whole end. Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.
Bat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Batted (p. pr. & vb. n. Batting.]
Definition: To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.
Bat, v. i.
Definition: To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
Bat, n. Etym: [Corrupt. from OE. back, backe, balke; cf. Dan. aften- bakke] (aften evening), Sw. natt-backa] (natt night), Icel. le (le leather), Icel. blaka to flutter.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the Cheiroptera, 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 Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 June 2025
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
