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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 playersplay

2. an ancient racket gameplay

  Familiarity information: BATTLEDORE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BATTLEDORE (noun)


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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