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Batting vs Batwing - What's the difference?

batting | batwing |

As nouns the difference between batting and batwing

is that batting is (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc or batting can be the act of someone who bats while batwing is the wing of a bat, or its shape.

As a verb batting

is .

As an adjective batwing is

shaped like the wing of a bat.

batting

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

  • (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc
  • special cotton for surgery.
  • Synonyms

    * bat, batt

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

  • the act of someone who bats
  • the battings of her eyelashes

    Verb

    (head)
  • batwing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Shaped like the wing of a bat.
  • *1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 491:
  • *:The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky.
  • * 2012 , James E. Ferrell, Cross-Pull (page 385)
  • A tall figure stepped up to the batwing doors of the saloon as Tommy and Matt passed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The wing of a bat, or its shape.
  • Derived terms

    * batwing sleeve