• (n.) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.
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Whirl'bat` noun Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. « The
whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar.»
Dryden. Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/32
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