old bat

I musn't hit too hard, for this is an awful tough old bat, that has brought me in more than a few home-runs.

"O, that's only my old bat-stroke that used to worry the boys in town-hall so much," said the Captain carelessly.

Had a room with another boy in an old bat roost over beyond the Wells Street bridge.

He nodded toward his wife, who stood at some distance talking earnestly with Old Bat.

That old bat of a Stubbard has got scent of a rat, and is hunting about the farm-houses.