(baseball) A completed batting opportunity that did not result in a base on balls, hit-by-pitch, sacrifice fly, sacrifice bunt, or interference or obstruction.

(cricket) The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground.

(transitive, cricket) To play (the ball) with a dead bat.

(cricket) Of a shot played with a cross bat.

(cricket) The state of a player who did not bat in an innings played by his side. Abbreviated DNB.

(US, idiomatic) From the start; immediately; right away.

(cricket) a bat, traditionally made from willow, used to play cricket

Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to South America, which use their teeth to nick larger animals while they are asleep, allowing it to surreptitiously lap a blood meal.

(cricket) The bat when held vertically, or when swung through a vertical arc.

Alternative form of bat an eyelid