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)
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"Battledore" Quotes from Famous Books — The Romance of an Old Fool • Roswell Field — Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler — The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb — Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch — Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge |
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