battledore

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  1. noun An early form of badminton played with a flat wooden paddle and a shuttlecock.
  2. noun The paddle used in this game.
  3. noun A badminton racket.

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  • Give him a boar to stab, and a pigeon to shoot at, a battledore or an angling rod, and he is better contented than Solomon in all his glory, and will never discover, like that sapient sovereign, that all is vanity and vexation of spirit. —  Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
  • The emphasis was on dining well (no one had heard of calories), but they also strolled along mountain paths or played battledore-and-shuttlecock (fun!) —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • Then am I ready to beat her with the battledore, and grow so peevish as I grow sick, that I'll undertake she wishes there were no steel in England. —  The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
  • The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • After a long spell of work, the battledore is seized and the shuttlecock bounces up to the glass roof. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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  1. Middle English batildore, perhaps blend of betel, bat; see beetle3 and Old Provençal batedor, bat (from battre, to beat, from Late Latin battere; see batter1).
 

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