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whirlbats

whirlbats is the plural of whirlbat.

Meaning of whirlbat

Noun

whirlbat (plural whirlbats)

  1. (archaic) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it.
  2. (archaic, poetic) The cestus of ancient boxers.

Questions about whirlbats

What is whirlbats the plural of?
Whirlbats is the plural of whirlbat.

Words near whirlbats in the dictionary

  1. whirl-bone
  2. whirl-bones
  3. whirlabout
  4. whirlabouts
  5. whirlbat
  6. whirlbats
  7. whirlblast
  8. whirlblasts
  9. whirlbone
  10. whirlbones
  11. whirled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whirlbats (page history and authors); whirlbat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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