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A sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
Answer for the clue "A sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games ", 7 letters:
racquet
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bodie was in squash gear, still holding his racquet across his knees. ▪ Most of the boys seemed to possess a squash racquet . ▪ She'd been playing tennis, and was swinging her racquet as she walked. ▪ The 1991 Head racquet range ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"handled hitting device used in tennis, etc.," c.1500, probably originally "tennis-like game played with open hand" (late 14c.), from Middle French rachette , requette (Modern French raquette ) "racket for hitting; palm of the hand," perhaps via Italian ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis, or a shuttlecock in badminton.
Usage examples of racquet.
Vinod had gone into the Sports Shop, where the dwarf was on friendly terms with the ball boys and the racquet stringers.
As for the ball boys and the racquet stringers, they thought Vinod was cute.
Vinod collected squash-racquet handles from the racquet stringers at the Duckworth Sports Shop.
Invite the man to grab one racquet handle, then break his wrist with the other handle.
Sethna disapproved of such violence, and of the Sport Shop racquet stringers who happily provided Vinod with his arsenal of squash-racquet handles.
Not, of course, that you could get a hard serve with this racquet, anyway.
But anyway, she said could I possibly call here and leave a new tennis racquet for you.
Sports Pavilion, now officially vacated by the police, and Jennifer put her racquet carefully into her press.
I wanted a new racquet, it was because the old one wanted restringing.
She stared down at the racquet she was holding, moved a step or two along the path, then wheeled round and marched determinedly towards the house.
She ran up the stairs to her small bedroom, looked round her hurriedly, then lifting the mattress on her bed, shoved the racquet flat beneath it.
The racquet looked and felt just as before, its weight hardly altered in feel.
Because in the Sports Pavilion there was a tennis racquet containing a fortune in jewels.
Mademoiselle Jennifer, in the woman who came and offered you a new racquet for your old one.
He concealed it in the handle of a tennis racquet, hollowing out the handle and afterwards piecing it together again so skilfully that it was difficult to see what had been done.