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To carry or carry out or bring out one's bat is to ` stay with it, '' outlast the rest '-- the exact nuance depending upon the context.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
To do something off one's own bat is to do it ` on one's own. '— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
Today a bat is a bat, not a "mace," "club," "willow," or "stick."— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
And then it is a real inquiry concerning the nature of a bird or a bat, to make their yet imperfect ideas of it more complete; by examining whether all the simple ideas to which, combined together, they both give the name bird, be all to be found in a bat: but this is a question only of inquirers (not disputers) who neither affirm nor deny, but examine: Or, (2) It is a question between disputants; whereof the one affirms, and the other denies that a bat is a bird.— God, Aids & Circumcision
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