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   Bat

   /bat/

   

   noun

   • 1. an implement with a handle and a solid surface, usually of wood, used for hitting the ball in games such as baseball, cricket, and table tennis.
   • ▪ a person batting, especially in cricket: "the team's opening bat"
   • ▪ each of a pair of objects resembling table tennis bats, used by a person on the ground to guide a taxiing aircraft.

   verb

   • 1. (of a team or a player in sports such as baseball) take in turns the role of hitting rather than fielding: "Ruth came to bat in the fifth inning"
   • 2. hit at (someone or something) with the palm of one's hand: "he batted the flies away"

   Word Origin late Old Englishbatt ‘club, stick, staff’, perhaps partly from Old French batte, from battre ‘to strike’.

   Scrabble Points: 5

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   • A

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