Crossword clues for racquet
racquet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Racket \Rack"et\ (r[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. Reticule); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.]
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A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket.
--Bancroft. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
--Chaucer.A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]
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A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.
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 racchetta or Spanish raqueta, both often said to be from Arabic rahat, a form of raha "palm of the hand," but this has been doubted. Compare French jeu de paume "tennis," literally "play with the palm of the hand," and compare tennis).
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.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: racket]
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.