Bat

1. n. A part of a brick with one whole end.
2. n. A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
3. n. Shale or bituminous shale.
4. n. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.