1. A club used for hitting a ball in various games
   "The baseball player swung the bat and hit a home run"
    
2. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
   "Bats are the only chiropterans and the only mammals capable of true flight";
   - chiropteran, flittermouse [archaic]
    
3. The club used in playing cricket
   "a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting";
   - cricket bat
    
4. A small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
   "He gripped the bat firmly before serving";
   - squash racket, squash racquet
    
5. (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
   "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats";
   - at-bat

1. Strike (a ball in a game) with a baseball, cricket or other type of bat
   "bat the ball"
    
2. Have a turn at bat
   "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
    
3. Use a bat
   "Who's batting?"
    
4. Wink briefly
   "bat one's eyelids";
   - flutter
    
5. Deflect or refute an attack or argument
   "she batted away their objections"; "he batted down the allegations"

Sounds like: batt

Derived forms: batted, batting, bats

Type of: blink, club, cricket equipment, eutherian, eutherian mammal, hit, nictate, nictitate, placental, placental mammal, play, racket, racquet, turn, wink

Part of: Chiroptera, order Chiroptera

Encyclopedia: Bat, leaf nosed