Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of club or cudgel, so called because whirled around the head. It does not appear that such a weapon was thrown.
- n. A bat or club with a broad curved end used in one form of game of hurling.
Wiktionary
- n. A lightweight medieval throwing-axe
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete See whirlbat.
Examples
“On second thought, I don’t think a hurlbat is similar to a shurikan.”
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Just Batty
vesper bat, vampire bat, fruit bat, baseball bat, Roy Batty, Townsend's big-ea..., Kitti's Hog-nosed..., giant golden-crow..., pipistrelle bat, Birdlike Noctule, stellaluna, Allen's Big-eared... and 174 more...
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Greek Fire
being items related to mediaeval warfare, arms and armaments.
caltrop, ballista, trebuchet, mangonel, petard, onager, petrary, hurlbat, francisca, crossbow, longbow, flail and 97 more...
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Finnegan
...from swerve of shore to bend of bay,...all's fair in vannesy...and in Finnegans Wake.
Other terms used or coined by Joyce may be found at inkhorn's list Joycean Vocab.riverrun, wielderfight, vannesy, arclight, ringsome, tumptytumtoes, sinduced, neatlight, baubletop, troublant, nabir, wabsanti and 765 more...
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