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The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. Mason.

Fertile. See Battel, a. [Obs.]

The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.

Embattled. [Poetic] Tennyson.

parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

One who battologizes.

To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. Sir T. Herbert.

A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. Milton.

See Batten, and Baton.

The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.

An elevated river bed or sea bed.

The measuring of time by beating.

Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. "Batty wings." Shak.

A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.

Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.