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

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

(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.

Alternative form of bat an eyelid

(baseball) Preparing to have or having one's turn to attempt to hit the ball.

(intransitive, baseball) To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.

(baseball) The speed of the bat during a swing.

The catching of small birds at night by lighting a fire near their roost, then scaring them awake whereupon they fly towards the flames and can be caught in nets on poles.

A person who catches birds by the method of bat-fowling.

(now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat. / (now literary) A ghost, an evil spirit. / (Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.