BAT, in Zoology. See VESPERTILIO, MAMMALIA Index.
Bar-Fowling, a method of catching birds in the night, by lighting some straw, or torches, near the place where they are at roost; for upon beating them
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up, they fly to the flame, where, being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beat down with bushes fixed to the end of poles, &c.