The bat. (Anglo-Saxon hrere-mus, the fluttering-mouse; verb, hrere-an, to flutter.) Of course, the “bat” is not a winged mouse.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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