noun
definition
Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
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An old woman.
Examples of bat in a Sentence
How is my little fruit bat doing?
They kept Logan's baseball gear there, and she felt the sudden need to have a bat in her hands.
At cricket he was equally good as a bat and as a wicket-keeper.
De Villeneuve and Penaud constructed their winged models on different types, the former selecting the bat, the latter the bird.
Told 'em what I paid for the merchandise and they didn't bat an eyebrow.
I don't even have my baseball bat yet.
I cared enough to make sure Darkyn's little fruit bat is okay.
The comparatively few indigenous placental mammals, besides the dingo or wild dog - which, however, may have come from the islands north of this continent - are of the bat tribe and of the rodent or rat tribe.
She took aim on a tall bunch of grass and swung the whip like a bat.
Sackler handed him his son's Little League bat.
It is necessary, therefore, at this stage to direct the attention of the reader somewhat fully to the subject of flight, as witnessed in the insect, bird and bat, a knowledge of natural flight preceding, and being in some sense indispensable to, a knowledge of artificial flight.
Can also be distinguished from the brown long-eared bat by the length of the thumb.
The ferret, rabbit, cat, rat, mouse and two kinds of bat have become naturalized.
In Australia, a woman was told not to go near a certain tree where a bat lived; she infringed the prohibition, the bat fluttered out, and men died.
This unlocks the door on 3F that leads to Dandelion's bat cave, complete with trot Batmobile.
The movement of the bat's wing in extension is a spiral one, the spiral running alternately from below upwards and forwards and from above downwards and backwards.
De Villeneuve made the wings of his artificial bat conical in shape and comparatively rigid.
The tall pool player was still looking around angrily, holding his pool cue like a bat.
The program supports all popular file formats - from simple mailing lists to The Bat!
The Siberian is very playful and is so fascinated with water that she will often drop toys in it and bat them around.
Hitting a Home Run Make sure you use your 'charge swing' and hit the ball with the 'sweet spot' of the bat.
If you've been experiencing a run of bad luck, a crystal bat figurine may help turn your luck around.
Div ye keep a bat there, far we micht hae a moose?
The road improvement also included a conservation scheme for various species and habitats it incorporates a bat hibernaculum and otter passages.
He is talking about installing a " really big " bat roost tower and the possibility of creating an artificial hibernaculum on site.
This fact sheet includes the construction and use of bat boxes, hedgehog homes, red squirrel feeding hoppers and bumblebee homes.
Has he got the maturity with the bat to play big innings?
In his first Test innings he went out to bat against India with the score 790 for four.
Where state laws outrun the mall to bat for new york state.
In fact, BAT is reaping the whirlwind sown by its own corporate misdeeds.
I've got my bat mitzvah soon, which is my rite of passage.
Winning the toss captain Greg Hill decided to bat first on what was a very fresh wicket with a good quick outfield.
When he is about to get his head bashed in with a baseball bat, Stu asks the sniper to shoot the pimp.
Five species of bat are found on the site with two bat roosts found within 50 yards of the building.
My husband and a neighbor grabbed a shovel and a bat, and they were waving them until it took off.
Make a bird or bat box for your garden or be captivated by the visiting storyteller.
A judge found BAT's Australian subsidiary had " deliberately obliterated " documents, depriving her of the right to a fair trial.
When the bat bites its victim, it secretes this powerful clot-dissolving substance so that the victim's blood will keep flowing.
The word is thus distinct from the other common term "bat," the implement for striking, which is probably connected with Fr.
In October 2004 a 15 year old girl was bitten by a rabid bat, she received no PEP.
He too spooks at things like birds & leaves yet wo n't bat an eyelid at a tractor.
Chris Ringham lost the toss as stand-in skipper and March were put in to bat.
A judge found BAT 's Australian subsidiary had " deliberately obliterated " documents, depriving her of the right to a fair trial.
When the bat bites its victim, it secretes this powerful clot-dissolving substance so that the victim 's blood will keep flowing.
You may find that a bat or small tortoiseshell butterfly may roost or hibernate in this secret hideaway.
It showed an undulatory movement as it flew across the sky, like the flight of a bat.
Bat urine is composed of 70% urea which decays to form dilute ammonia and other compounds.
There are more native species of bat in the UK -- 16 breeding and several vagrant visitors -- than any other group of mammals.
The natural agent in vampire bat saliva becomes 13,000 times more active when exposed to fibrin.
This is the size of a queen bumblebee compared to the largest bat in the world that has a wingspan of 6 feet.