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Birdie
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shuttlecock
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A shuttlecock (also called a bird or birdie ) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton . It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from 16 or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck, embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context badminton English) 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. vb. 1 To move rapidly back and forth 2 To send or toss back and forth; to bandy ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from shuttle (v.) + cock (n.2).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata. ▪ If the consumer decides to participate then he or she will require a racket, shuttlecocks, clothing and footwear.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: bird , birdie , shuttle ] v. send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock
Usage examples of shuttlecock.
There was lawn bowling, battledore and shuttlecock, archery, and even target shooting.
I do not know which begins this battledore and shuttlecock arrangement.
It was the first time she had been present at a game of battledore and shuttlecock with what she regarded as fundamental morals.
I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot -- ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock.
Alec, stopping to nod and smile at the bright-faced figure resting on the old bamboo chair, after a lively game of battledore and shuttlecock, in place of a run which a storm prevented.
It was a battledore and shuttlecock talk, to be kept going until the door opened and the gentlemen came in.
Anything and everything serves to keep up a game of battledore and shuttlecock with words and ideas.
The only thing they knew about it was that the road was so full of ruts and pits that they were jolted from side to side and flung up and down as though the carriage were playing battledore and shuttlecock with them.
Mary a toy tea-set, cups and saucers decorated with pink roses, and for David battledore and shuttlecock.
She could read, write, walk, busy herself with stitchery, play at battledore and shuttlecock with Torquil, or loiter her time away.
Games of battledore and shuttlecock with Torquil were more a penance than a pleasure, for not only was he an indifferent player but an extremely bad-tempered one as well, frequently hurling his battledore from him in disgust, tearing the feathers from the shuttlecock, or walking off the court in a fury.
We found two in a cupboard, among a heap of old toys, tops, and hoops, and battledores and shuttlecocks.
His parents had even kept his little treasures: a wooden frog he had whittled and painted, under the instruction of the head gardener, a couple of battered shuttlecock racquets that needed restringing, and a bag of marbles, swirled with amber, scarlet, and blue.
A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.
We found two in a cupboard, among a heap of old toys, tops, and hoops, and battledores and shuttlecocks.