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BATTLEDORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does battledore mean?
• BATTLEDORE (noun)
The noun BATTLEDORE has 2 senses:
1. a light long-handled racket used by badminton players
Familiarity information: BATTLEDORE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light long-handled racket used by badminton players
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
badminton racket; badminton racquet; battledore
Hypernyms ("battledore" is a kind of...):
racket; racquet (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)
Domain category:
badminton (a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An ancient racket game
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
battledore; battledore and shuttlecock
Hypernyms ("battledore" is a kind of...):
badminton (a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net)
Context examples
But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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