rearmouse
11bat — as in ‘cricket bat’ [OE] and bat the animal [16] come from entirely different sources. Bat the wooden implement first appears in late Old English as batt ‘cudgel’, but it is not clear where it ultimately came from. Some have postulated a Celtic… …
12reermouse — n. Bat, rearmouse …
13bat — as in ‘cricket bat’ [OE] and bat the animal [16] come from entirely different sources. Bat the wooden implement first appears in late Old English as batt ‘cudgel’, but it is not clear where it ultimately came from. Some have postulated a Celtic… …
14reermouse — variant of rearmouse …
15rye-mouse — dial. variant of rearmouse …
16ry-mouse — dial. var. rearmouse …
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