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Battledore

noun

A light long-handled racket used by badminton players. Synonyms: badminton racket, badminton racquet.

An ancient racket game. Synonym: battledore and shuttlecock.

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... forgave her at once. And, when she came to me, and put her arms around my neck and urged me to go with her to a tennis match—a foolish game where grown-up people knock little balls over a net with a battledore—I pointed out to her that such spectacles, while eminently proper for young folk, argued a failing mind in those of maturer years. With a charming ...

— The Romance of an Old Fool • Roswell Field

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... if there is dewy or rain-besprinkled pasture, it tells of a luminous silvery colour by reason of the light which the clouds reflect upon it; the bottom edges of the clouds are also light through the reflection upward from the grass, but I do not know which begins this battledore and shuttlecock arrangement. These things are like quarrels between two old and intimate friends; one can never say who begins them. Sometimes on a dull gray day like this, I have seen the shadow parts of clouds take a greenish-ashen-coloured tinge ...

— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler

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Words linked to "Battledore" : racquet, badminton racket, badminton, battledore and shuttlecock, badminton racquet, racket