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A bat or beetle used in washing clothes, or for smoothing them out while being laundered.
noun.
An instrument shaped like a racket, but smaller, used in playing the game of battledore and shuttlecock.
noun.
A paddle for a canoe.
noun.
In glass-making, a flat square piece of polished iron with a wooden handle, used for flattening the bottoms of tumblers, or for similar purposes.
noun.
A kind of paddle with a long handle, used for placing loaves in a baker's oven.
noun.
A kind of horn-book: so called from its shape.