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Whirlbat
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar. Dryden.