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- adjective Shaped like a bat's wing.
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Examples
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His tail switched, his bat's-wing ears folded and lay back.
Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991
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Another very ingenious system is that of Mr. Loiseau, consisting of an ordinary gas-burner (fish-tail, bat's-wing, etc.), carrying at its side
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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An ordinary bat's-wing gas-burner mounted at the far corner of the table top is invaluable in the preparation of tubular apparatus with sharp curves, and for coating newly-made glass apparatus with a layer of soot to prevent too rapid cooling, and its usually associated result -- cracking.
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The Bunsen flame is applied to a spot some 5 cm. from one end of such a piece of tubing and the tube slightly drawn out to form a constriction, the constricted part is bent in the bat's-wing flame, to an acute angle, and the open extremity of the long arm sealed off in the blowpipe flame.
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In their preparation three articles are essential; first a three-square hard-steel file or preferably a glass-worker's knife of hard Thuringian steel for cutting glass tubes etc.; next a blowpipe flame, for although much can be done with the ordinary Bunsen burner, a blowpipe flame makes for rapid work; and lastly a bat's-wing burner.
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If acetylene can be consumed without polymerisation in burners of the simple fish-tail or bat's-wing type, it should show a higher illuminating efficiency.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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The appearance of the head was now somewhat that of a "bat's-wing" gaslight.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Her eyes, gazing into space, took in the whole of d'Arthez's person; their light poured through his flesh, she read his soul; suspicion had not so much as touched him with its bat's-wing.
Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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