night-bat

English

night-bat (plural night-bats)

(now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
  there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz].
(now literary) A ghost, an evil spirit.
(Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.

night-bat (plural night-bat dem, quantified night-bat)