different between shuttlecock vs battledore

English

Alternative forms

• shittlecock

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???tl?k?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???tl?k?k/

Etymology

From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).

Noun

shuttlecock (countable and uncountable, plural shuttlecocks) (badminton)

1. (countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. [from early 16th c.]

   Synonym: birdie
2. (uncountable, dated) The game of badminton.
   • 1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)

     Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock […]

Translations

Related terms

• battledore and shuttlecock

Verb

shuttlecock (third-person singular simple present shuttlecocks, present participle shuttlecocking, simple past and past participle shuttlecocked)

1. To move rapidly back and forth
2. To send or toss back and forth; to bandy
   • 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

     if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!

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Further reading

• shuttlecock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

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Alternative forms

• battledoor

Noun

battledore (plural battledores)

1. A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
2. The racket used in this game.
3. (obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
   • 1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface

     You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.

4. (historical) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
   • 1563, John Foxe, The Book of Martyrs, ch. 21

     There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.

Derived terms

• know B from a battledore, know a B from a battledore

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Anagrams

• tetralobed