night-bat
English
Alternative forms
- nightbat
Noun
night-bat (plural night-bats)
- (now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
- 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 [transl. chauvessouriz].
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- (now literary) A ghost, an evil spirit.
- (Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.