a.; also 7 battie. [f. BAT sb.1 + -Y.] Of or belonging to a bat, bat-like.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 365. Sleepe With leaden legs, and Battie-wings doth creepe.
1883. Eha (E. H. Aitken), Tribes on My Frontier, 69. This animal [the fruit-bat or flying-fox] would not be a bat at all but for a strong batty smell.