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BATTED
BAT
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
Verb
batted
simple past tense and past participle of bat
Source: Wiktionary
BAT
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
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