Batlet

A small bat, or square or round piece of wood with a handle, used for beating linen when taken out of the buck-basket. Bat'ley, a manufacturing town of England, W. Riding, co. York, 2 m. E. of Dewsbury. Pop . 30,000. Batman, n. [Pers.] ( Com . ) A weight used in Persia, containing 40 sihrs, equal to 134 lbs. avoirdupois. -[Fr. bât , a pack-saddle.] ( Mil .) In the English army, when troops are in the field, each field-officer has a soldier, called batman or bat -horse, who attends to the horses, cooking-utensils, . Batn-el-Ha'gar ("Womb of Rocks"), a stony district, stretching along the Nile; Lat. 21° to 22° N.; Lon. 30° 40′ to 31° 10 E. It is chiefly peopled by Bedouin Arabs.