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Bat

1. A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

2. (Science: chemical) shale or bituminous shale.

3. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

4. A part of a brick with one whole end.

(Science: machinery) bat bolt, a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly.

Origin: oe. Batte, botte, as. Batt; perhaps fr. The Celtic; cf. Ir. Bat, bata, stick, staff; but cf. Also f. Batte a beater (thing), wooden sword, battre to beat.

(Science: zoology) 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.

(Science: zoology) bat tick, a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

Origin: Corrupt. From oe. Back, backe, balke; cf. Dan. Aften-bakke]/> (aften evening), Sw. Natt-backa]/> (natt night), Icel. Ler-blaka]/> (ler leather), Icel. Blaka to flutter.


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It looks like alaskan big brown bat, with no skin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_brown_bat Have you seen the size of your bat and of the tree? Strike 1 Have you paid attention to the heavy musculature of the upper body, not likely in ...

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by canalon
Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:29 pm
 
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What is this animal???? SOOO weird looking.

bat? Are you serious? It had to be really huge bat.

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by JackBean
Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:20 pm
 
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What is this animal???? SOOO weird looking.

It looks like alaskan big brown bat, with no skin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_brown_bat

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by javedshaikm
Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:27 am
 
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Arachnophobia is learned behaviour. Put a very young child next to a spider and they won't bat an eyelid. It is not that simple. Very young children don't do pretty much anything. They do not feel sexual urges towards opposite sex, something that is certainly genetic ...

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by biohazard
Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:45 am
 
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Is arachnophobia genetic?

Arachnophobia is learned behaviour. Put a very young child next to a spider and they won't bat an eyelid.

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Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:22 am
 
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