(n): mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
(n): (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
(n): (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
(n): a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
(n): a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
(n): the club used in playing cricket
(n): sports equipment used in playing cricket
(n): a club used for hitting a ball in various games
(n): stout stick that is larger at one end
(v): strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
(v): deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
(v): wink briefly
(v): briefly shut the eyes
(v): have a turn at bat
(v): deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
(v): use a bat
(v): deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
(v): beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
(v): come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Great poem. Thanks, Treeseed. :-)
The Bat
Theodore Roethke
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.
His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.
He loops in crazy figures half the night
Among the trees that face the corner light.
But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.
from Collected poems of Theodore Roethke
My Doubleday, 1938
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