Meanings
nounnight-bat (plural night-bats)
plural night-bats · alternative nightbat
- CaribbeanA (night-flying) bat.
there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz].
, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94 - literaryA ghost, an evil spirit.
- JamaicaA large nocturnal moth.
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