📒 a piece of wood with a handle, made in various shapes and sizes, and used for hitting the ball in games such as baseball, cricket and table tennis
📒 an animal like a mouse with wings that flies and feeds at night (= it is nocturnal). There are many types of bat.
📒 trying to hit the ball with a bat
📒 not able to see well
📒 very fast
📒 if you do something off your own bat, it is your own idea and you do it without help or support from anyone else
📒 immediately; without delay