Bast vs Bats - What's the difference?
bast | bats |
Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
* , chapter=19
, title= * 1919, (Ronald Firbank), (Valmouth) , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
* 1997 : ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 145
(bat)
(informal) Mad, insane.
Bats is a anagram of bast.
As nouns the difference between bast and bats
is that bast is fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord while bats is plural of lang=en.As a verb bats is
third-person singular of bat.As an adjective bats is
mad, insane.As a proper noun Bats is
a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Georgia.bast
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .
- He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.
Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----bats
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.