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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small rounded piece of cork or rubber with a conical crown of feathers or plastic, used in badminton. Also called bird, birdie.
  2. v. To throw or send back and forth like a shuttlecock.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A piece of cork, or of similar light material, in one end of which feathers are stuck, made to be struck by a battledore in play; also, the play or game. See phrase below.
  2. n. A malvaceous shrub, Periptera punicea of Mexico, the only species of a still dubious genus. It has crimson flowers and a many-celled radiate capsule, one or other suggesting the name.
  3. To throw or bandy backward and forward like a shuttlecock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. badminton A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
  2. v. To move rapidly back and forth
  3. v. To send or toss back and forth; to bandy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
  2. v. To send or toss to and fro; to bandy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
  2. v. send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock

Etymologies

  1. shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers). Attested from 1522. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Every one promised, as it were, to be a battle-dore if I would be the other, and the shuttlecock was to be our letters, — egad!”

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn

  • “The shuttlecock is a cork in which feathers have been inserted.”

    Outdoor Sports and Games

  • “Upon its return to earth, the spacecraft transforms from an airplane-like shape to a "shuttlecock," wafting down through the atmosphere yet not overheating.”

    Virgin Galactic – Get Your Ticket To Ride

  • “I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.”

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 1

  • “Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour.”

    A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character

  • “It'll give you an excuse to say "shuttlecock" without feeling silly.”

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now

  • “The "shuttlecock" configuration is for sub-orbital speeds, not orbital speeds.”

    SPACE.com

  • “You cannot use the Space Ship one "shuttlecock" configuration for this slowing down because there is no atmosphere in space.”

    SPACE.com

  • “Something like a "shuttlecock" reentry for Space Ship One but for orbital speeds?”

    SPACE.com

  • “The "shuttlecock" configuration is used only (in) the atmosphere; remember Space Ship One only”

    SPACE.com

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bandy
  1. birdie

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. badminton equipment
  1. bandy

same context (7)

Words that are found in similar contexts

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. shuttlecork
  2. battledoor
  3. birdie
  1. bird
  2. shuttle
  3. serve
  1. shuttle-board
  2. shuttlecock
  3. drop shot
  1. badminton
  2. battledore
  3. smash
  1. racquet
  2. retrieve
  3. racket
  1. shittlecock
  2. volant

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