Bat

What “Bat” means

Noun

1. Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
2. An old woman.

Noun

1. A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon
2. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
3. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
4. A player rated according to skill in batting.
5. The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.

Verb

1. To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
2. To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
3. To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
4. To bate or flutter, as a hawk.

Verb

1. To flutter
2. To wink.
3. To flit quickly from place to place.

Where the word comes from

Dialectal variant of Middle English bakke, balke, of North Germanic origin (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta). Perhaps compare Old Norse (leðr)blaka (literally “(leather) flapper”), from leðr + blaka (“to flap”). Compare also Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-der.? Celticder.? Old English batt Old French batteinflu. Middle English bat English bat From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to strike, beat, pierce”), similar to the Gaulish source of Latin battuō (“to beat, pound”).

From Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), from Old French batre (“to beat”), from Late Latin battere, from Latin battuere, of uncertain origin; perhaps of Germanic or Celtic origin. In modern English reinterpreted as a verbal derivative of Etymology 2. Compare batter, battery.

Possibly a variant of bate.

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