n. A heavy stick or club; formerly, a walking-stick.n. The wooden club with which the players in base-ball, cricket, and similar games bat or drive the ball.n. A batsman or batter.n. A blow as with a bat or baton: as, he received a bat in the face.n. A tool made of beech, used by plumbers in dressing and flatting sheet-lead.n. A rammer used by founders.n. A blade used for beating or scutching hemp or flax.n. A piece of brick having one end entire; hence, any portion of a brick; a brickbat.n. A kind of sun-dried brick.n. Shale; hardened clay, but not fire-clay: same as bind, 2. Also spelled batt.n. In hat-making, a felted mass of fur, or of hair and wool. Two such masses are required to form the body of a hat. Also spelled batt.n. A continuous wad of cotton from the batting-machine, ready for carding; also, a sheet of cotton wadding or batting. See batting.n. In ceramics: A flexible sheet of gelatin used in transferring impressions to the biscuit.n. A shelf or slab of baked clay used to support pieces of biscuit which have been painted, and are being fired again. See enamel-kiln.n. Rate; speed; style.To beat; hit; strike.In base-ball and similar games, to strike the ball: as, he bats well.n. A wing-handed, wing-footed flying mammal, of the order Chiroptera (which see).To bate or flutter, as in the phrase to bat the eyes, that is, wink.n. A pack-saddle: only in composition, as bathorse, batman, etc.n. See batz.n. Same as tical.n. A measure of land formerly used in South Wales; a perch of 11 feet square.n. Same as bath.n. A paddle or blade in a coal-pulverizer. These bats are carried on rapidly rotating arms, and break the coal into very fine particles.n. plural Heavy laced boots with hobnails.n. Low-cut laced shoes formerly worn by women.n. Boots in bad repair.n. A Siamese silver coin, the same as the tical.
