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A part of a brick with one whole end.
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
A mode of printing on glazed ware.
Alt. of Batwing
Disputable.
Embattled.
A cofferdam.
A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.
An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).
Alt. of Batata
Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.
A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.
The quantity of bread baked at one time.
A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.
To attack; to bait.
imp. of Bite.
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
To waste away.