1977,John Le Carré,The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published2010, page491:
The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brownbatwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky.
1982,Douglas Adams,Life, the Universe and Everything, page94:
Hisbatwings were somehow more frightening for being the pathetic broken floundering things they were than if they had been strong, muscular beaters of the air.
One of a pair ofswinging doors which typically do notlock nor cover the full vertical range of thedoorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially insaloons.
2005 April 5, Ralph Compton, Peter Brandvold,Ralph Compton Navarro, Penguin,→ISBN:
The cantina was a flatroofed adobe, painfully white in the unrelenting sun, with a brush roof and splinterybatwings. The doors swung back and forth as a man stepped before them and stood beneath the brush arbor, staring at Navarro,[…]
2010 March 2, Jon Sharpe,The Trailsman #341: Sierra Six-Guns, Penguin,→ISBN:
He made it to the saloon undetected and slipped under thebatwing and over to the table where he had left his saddlebags. They weren't there. Fargo ran his hands over the top of the table to be sure, and swore.
2012, James E. Ferrell,Cross-Pull, page385:
A tall figure stepped up to thebatwing doors of the saloon as Tommy and Matt passed.
2016 July 31, James Clay,Hard Stone, Robert Hale Ltd,→ISBN:
Feigning indifference, Stacey strolled quickly toward thebatwings. Looking over the doors he saw Snow and his companions walking in the direction of the hotel, but he couldn't be sure that was where they were actually headed.
2021 November 23, Conn Hamlett,John Lee Johnson in the Valley of the Sun: Along Came Jones, AuthorHouse,→ISBN:
Reaching the saloon, John pulled back the rightbatwing and nodded for Utah Jimmy and Memphis Mayford to enter. After they went inside, John led them to the receiving line. The milling crowd moved aside quickly,[…]
