Definitions
Flying mammal, or club used in baseball or cricket.
Word origin
Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, of North Germanic origin. Perhaps compare Old Norse (leðr)blaka (literally “(leather) flapper”), from leðr + blaka (“to flap”).
Used in a sentence
“The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.”
“"Isn't it lovely?" I smiled and thought: "Yes it is. It's also a Blackbird, you silly old bat!”
“You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer18 curated clues
01“Cricket tool”3 letters
02“Animal that may roost”3 letters
03“Baseball club”3 letters
04“Baseball hitter's tool”3 letters
05“Cave dweller with wings”3 letters
06“Cave flier”3 letters
07“Cave flyer”3 letters
08“Cave-dwelling flyer”3 letters
09“Cave-dwelling night flyer”3 letters
10“Club for a slugger”3 letters
11“Flying cave mammal”3 letters
12“Flying mammal or club”3 letters
13“Night-flying mammal”3 letters
14“Slugger's stick”3 letters
15“Slugger's tool”3 letters
16“Wooden club for baseball”3 letters
17“Flying mammal”3 letters
18“Nocturnal flyer”3 letters
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