Definitionn. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
Last update: August 10, 2015
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Shuttlecocks are made of a round piece of rubber with a ring of real feathers. [Please select]
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Lord Temple endeavoured to secure his exclusion on the ground that he had taken orders in the Church, and one of Gilray's caricatures delineates the two politicians, Temple and Camelford, playing at battledore and shuttlecock, with Horne Tooke as the shuttlecock. [Please select]
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Adle here ran before him with her shuttlecock. [Please select]
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The courtiers drew together in groups, and it seemed that a man's name was being bandied to and fro, dark shuttlecock to this painted throng. [Please select]
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The _Star_--" He whom she addressed loved not the shuttlecock, thought one woman but falser than another, and made parade of blunt speech." [Please select]
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--to play shuttlecock with a woman's life, with the soul of your wife; for that is what your conduct means. [Please select]
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"So I will, Richard, and make patent to all the world that she hath the remains of that shuttlecock, my heart." [Please select]
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The child, who was but seven years of age, was bandied to and fro like a shuttlecock between rival adventurers. [Please select]
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"As it happens," said Phyllis, in a tone of exasperated triumph, "I've got a shuttlecock in my pocket." [Please select]
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A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up. [Please select]
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Won small fortune from Petersham at battledore and shuttlecock,--played all night too. [Please select]
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