a.; also 7 battie. [f. BAT sb.1 + -Y.] Of or belonging to a bat, bat-like.

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1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 365. Sleepe With leaden legs, and Battie-wings doth creepe.

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1883.  ‘Eha’ (E. H. Aitken), Tribes on My Frontier, 69. This animal [the fruit-bat or flying-fox] … would not be a bat at all but for … a strong batty smell.

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