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Batwing vs Bating - What's the difference?

batwing | bating |

As an adjective batwing

is shaped like the wing of a bat.

As a noun batwing

is the wing of a bat, or its shape.

As a verb bating is

present participle of lang=en.

As a preposition bating is

apart from; except.

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

    bating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Apart from; except.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XIII:
  • *:‘There is but little I have heard from you which I did not expect to hear, and which I ought not to have expected; because, bating one circumstance, it is all very true.’