Battledore

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An early form of badminton played with a flat wooden paddle and a shuttlecock.
  • noun. The paddle used in this game.
  • noun. A badminton racket.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. same as battledoor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
  • noun. The racket used in this game.
  • noun. A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a light long-handled racket used by badminton players
  • noun. an ancient racket game
  • Word Usage
    "The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot."
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