Crossword clues for shuttlecock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shuttlecock \Shut"tle*cock`\, n. A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
Shuttlecock \Shut"tle*cock\, v. t.
To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock
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--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
WordNet
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 is covered with thin leather. To ensure that shuttlecocks rotate consistently, only feathers from the birds' left wings are used. The shuttlecock's shape makes it extremely aerodynamically stable. Regardless of initial orientation, it will turn to fly cork first, and remain in the cork-first orientation. The name shuttlecock is frequently shortened to shuttle. The "shuttle" part of the name was probably derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a loom; the "cock" part of the name was probably derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a cockerel.
Shuttlecock is a 1991 French- British thriller film directed by Andrew Piddington and starring Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson and Kenneth Haigh. It is based on the 1981 novel Shuttlecock by Graham Swift.
Shuttlecock is Graham Swift's critically acclaimed second novel, a psychological thriller published in 1981 by Allen Lane. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1983, and is said to be the best of his earlier novels. It was not published in the US until 1985, after the success of Waterland.
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.