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Battledoor   Listen
noun
battledoor  n.  
1.
An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. (Also spelled battledore)
2.
A child's hornbook. (Obs.)





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"Battledoor" Quotes from Famous Books



... made of pasteboard, shrimps and crabs, do all coldly furnish forth the lunch-table as favors and bonbonnieres. Then come plaster or pasteboard gondolas, skiffs, wherries, steamships, and ferry-boats, all made with wondrous skill and freighted with caramels. Imitation rackets, battledoor and shuttlecock, hoops and sticks, castanets, cup and ball, tambourines, guitars, violins, hand-organs, banjos, and drums, all have their little day as ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood


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