(baseball) sweet spot of a bat

cardboard (corrugated)

core, heart / pencil lead / wick

core; nucleus; marrow / lead (for a pencil); graphite / heart; essence; spirit

(baseball, softball, cricket) a bat / (table tennis) Synonym of ラケット (raketto, “paddle”) / (rare) Synonym of 蝙蝠 (kōmori, “bat”) (small flying mammal)

pan; tray (rectangular cookware)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to hit, to beat, to strike / (baseball) to hit / (computing) to type / (shogi) to drop / to make noodles