Synonym: clout, crack, hit, knock, strike. Similar words: combat, baths, debate, battery, bathroom, verbatim. Meaning: [bæt] 
n. 1. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate 2. (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit 3. a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash 4. the club used in playing cricket 5. a club used for hitting a ball in various games. v. 1. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat 2. wink briefly 3. have a turn at bat 4. use a bat 5. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.
n. 1. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate 2. (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit 3. a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash 4. the club used in playing cricket 5. a club used for hitting a ball in various games. v. 1. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat 2. wink briefly 3. have a turn at bat 4. use a bat 5. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight. 
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(121) Did saints ever bat their eyelids and look sleepily self-satisfied as cats?
(122) In the event, Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball.
(123) He reached for the bat and sent it skimming along the boards.
(124) BAt her new home, Tamika sits in a playroom aglow with morning light filtered through pink lace curtains.
(125) The Headmaster still had on his gown and he flapped in the wind like a bat as he charged across the grass.
(126) The casement was splattered with bat lime, the wall covered with a long beard of it, almost to the floor.
(127) I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
(128) Suddenly I was jumping, yelling out as the flagstone beat my feet like a cudgel or stone cricket bat.
(129) I asked him to help, and he said yes right off the bat.
(130) The fungus grows best on the surface of moist soils, containing bird and bat droppings.
(131) I kept swinging the bat, but by now Guy and Carmine had biked out of range and were looking back.
(132) Worrell averaged 83 with the bat, leading his team to only the fourth 5-0 clean sweep in Test history.
(133) How does a bat keep track of its own echoes, and avoid being misled by the echoes of others?
(134) The one bat was copied by the dozens until the animators had a mob.
(135) She appeared to have the sixth sense of a bat and could identify, record, and register every item on sale.
(136) Each eight-year-old male comes to the plate with dreams of violent magic in his bat.
(137) The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark.
(138) He watched her crash a magazine against the wall, trying to bat a horsefly.
(139) Running back at the crack of the bat, Greer leaped high and made the catch with his glove above the fence.
(140) It is suggested that the bat hears echoes of its own squeaks rebounding from solid objects. Sentencedict.com
(141) The one best cricket bat of his youth was becoming the one best Midvale.
(142) The bat wing membrane still reveals traces of an apparatus originally constructed for gliding.
(143) The old bat led me astray in more ways than one.
(144) He is opening bat in his school's cricket team and is Bedfordshire Schools' table tennis champion.
(145) Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.
(146) A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
(147) A single bat was created and given leeway to automatically flap its wings.
(148) But a bat uses its sound information for very much the same kind of purpose as we use our visual information.
(149) He made long-length longevity noodles -- not for their superstitious value, bat for their taste.
(150) At one point, Darryl Strawberry emerged from the dugout with a bat in his hands.