| ACROBAT | • acrobat n. An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance. • acrobat v. To practise acrobatics. • acrobat v. (Figurative) To move like an acrobat (With agility, balance, long leaps, etc.). |
| AEROBAT | • aerobat n. One who performs aerobatics. • AEROBAT n. one who performs feats in an aircraft. |
| BAT | • bat n. Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous. • bat n. (Derogatory) An old woman. • bat n. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket. |
| BRICKBAT | • brickbat n. A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club. • brickbat n. (Figurative) A criticism or uncomplimentary remark. • brickbat v. (Transitive) To attack by throwing brickbats. |
| BULLBAT | • bullbat n. A New World bird, common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor). • BULLBAT n. (US) a nocturnal bird, aka nighthawk. |
| COMBAT | • combat n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used). • combat n. A struggle for victory. • combat v. (Transitive) To fight; to struggle against. |
| DINGBAT | • dingbat n. (Informal) A silly, crazy or stupid person. • dingbat n. (Typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc. • dingbat n. (Architecture) An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area… |
| HOLDERBAT | • holderbat n. A device used to secure a pipe to a wall by means of an enclosing ring. • HOLDERBAT n. a clamp fixed around the sides of a pipe. |
| HURLBAT | • hurlbat n. A lightweight medieval throwing-axe. • HURLBAT n. (obsolete) an ancient Roman boxing glove loaded with metal, aka cestus, also WHIRLBAT, WHORLBAT. |
| NONCOMBAT | • noncombat adj. Not involved in, or not designed for, combat. • NONCOMBAT adj. not engaged in combat. |
| NUMBAT | • numbat n. A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively… • NUMBAT n. (Native Australian) a small Australian marsupial that feeds on termites. |
| RABAT | • rabat n. A polishing material made of potter’s clay that has failed in baking. • rabat n. (Countable) A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy. • rabat n. (Countable) The clerical linen collar itself. |
| RYBAT | • rybat n. (Architecture) A vertical dressed stone beside a door or window. • RYBAT n. (Scots) a dressed stone at the side of a door, window etc. |
| SABBAT | • sabbat n. Witches’ Sabbath. • Sabbat n. (Wicca) Any of the eight major holy days celebrated in Wicca. • SABBAT n. an assembly of demons and witches, also SABBATH. |
| TITTLEBAT | • tittlebat n. (UK, dialect, archaic) The three-spined stickleback. • TITTLEBAT n. the three-spined stickleback. |
| WHIRLBAT | • whirlbat n. (Archaic) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it. • whirlbat n. (Archaic, poetic) The cestus of ancient boxers. • WHIRLBAT n. an ancient boxing glove loaded with metal, also WHORLBAT. |
| WHORLBAT | • whorlbat n. Alternative form of whirlbat. • WHORLBAT n. an ancient boxing glove loaded with metal, also WHIRLBAT. |
| WOMBAT | • wombat n. Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern… • WOMBAT n. (Native Australian) any of three species of Australian burrowing marsupial. |