Battledore

In England since medieval times a children's game called Battledore was popular.

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Battledore had reminded him that there was “a deuced deal of cut-and-come-again in a hundred and twenty thousand pounds.”

Ayala's Angel 2004

Battledore and shuttlecock and hunt-the-slipper have also their attractions.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

Battledore had reminded him that there was "a deuced deal of cut-and-come-again in a hundred and twenty thousand pounds."

Ayala's Angel 1993

Battledore, they must stic in the old nooke at q in the corner, not seven years, but seventy times seven.

Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) G. W.

Rusher's Banbury _Battledore_ and _Reading Made Easy_ blocks, show the next improvement on the old _Horn Books_.

Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature Edwin Pearson

All approved of the suggestion, and soon the whole party was busily engaged in various lively games, "Graces," "Battledore and Shuttlecock,"

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins

Battledore and shuttlecock were favourite games for the girls, which they played singing quaint rhymes --

Old English Sports 1892

Battledore and Shuttlecock is a very old game, but it became fashionable for grown persons to play it in the reign of James I. Prince Henry, who was a golfer and a tennis player, was fond of it.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

Battledore had reminded him that there was "a deuced deal of cut-and-come-again in a hundred and twenty thousand pounds."

Ayala's Angel 1881