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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Bat

stick +

-let

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; – called also

batler

batling staff

batting staff

Shak.

Noun.

[from bat.] A small bat, or square piece of wood with a handle, for beating linen when taken out of the buck.

batlet ‎(plural batlets)

A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

1600 — William Shakespeare, As You Like it act ii, scene iv
Touchstone: I remember, when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her pretty chopt hands had milked;