Brewer's: Rear-mouse

or Rere-mouse. The bat. (Anglo-Saxon hrere-mus, the fluttering-mouse; verb. hrere-an, to flutter.) Of course, the “bat” is not a winged mouse.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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