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   bat

   /bat/

   noun

   • 1. an implement with a handle and a solid surface, typically of wood, used for hitting the ball in games such as cricket, baseball, and table tennis: "a cricket bat"
   • ▪ a turn at playing with a bat.
   • ▪ 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.
   • ▪ a slab on which pottery is formed, dried, or fired.

   verb

   • 1. (of a sports team or player) take the role of hitting rather than throwing the ball: "Australia reached 263 for 4 after choosing to bat"
   • 2. hit at (someone or something) with the flat 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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     3

   • A

     1

   • T

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