shuttlecock

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My flying back and forth between you like a shuttlecock isn't going to amount to anything Yes, I will go on to Enderby--there's no other way," agreed Miss Pritchard, "but I can't go tonight, because Elsie has an engagement.

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

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  • During this time the king played chess or dominoes with the queen or with Madame Élisabeth After dinner the young prince and his sister played in the antechamber at battledore and shuttlecock, at Siam , or other games. —  Ruin of a Princess
  • Of these the most popular are wrestling, boxing (in which both sexes take part), throwing the discus or quoit, foot- shuttlecock, and racing on foot or horseback or in chariots; to which may be added vaulting and tumbling, throwing the dart, and leaping through wheels or circles of fire. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • But if you'd rather have the rest of these fine folks take their entertainment by batting you about like a shuttlecock for the remainder of your Saturday evening - have right at it - I know how well they can oblige. —  Think Progress
  • Games with a shuttlecock are widely believed to have originated in ancient Greece about 2000 years ago. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • I am currently an administrative assistant for Delta of Minnesota in Eagan. annual family plan payment analyst will be Barnabas in the area of shuttlecock: $2,152.00 For most of insurance plan finch ` s customer service department Bostik, Inc. —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. Early modern English also shuttel-cock., shittlecock, shyttlecocke, shyttelcocke (also shittlecork, which some suppose to be the orig. form); from shuttle + cock (used vaguely, as in other compounds). Cf. shuttle, n., 7.
  2. from shuttlecock, n.
 

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