Any of several tropical fruit-eating bats of the family Pteropodidae; a megabat.

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.

(simile) Nearly totally blind, having a very poor sense of vision

(cricket) One of a pair of soft padded coverings that protect the legs of the person batting; a pad or batting pad.

(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) To bat throughout the whole of an innings, being one of the openers and remaining not out when 10 wickets have fallen.

(cricket) The bat, when swung in a horizontal arc.

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

(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.