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battledore and shuttlecock

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bat⋅tle⋅dore

  [bat-l-dawr, -dohr] noun, verb, -dored, -dor⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Also called battledore and shuttlecock. a game from which badminton was developed, played since ancient times in India and other Asian countries.
2. a light racket for striking the shuttlecock in this game.
3. a 17th- and 18th-century hornbook of wood or cardboard, used as a child's primer.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
4. to toss or fly back and forth: to battledore the plan among one's colleagues.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME batyldo(u)re washing beetle, equiv. to batyl to beat (clothes) in washing (freq. of bat 1 ) + -dore dung beetle ( beetle 1 for beetle 2 by way of pun, with allusion to filth on clothes). See dor 1
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battledore and shuttlecock

children's game played by two persons using small rackets called battledores, which are made of parchment, plastic, or rows of gut or nylon stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed around the top. Players try to bat the shuttlecock back and forth as many times as possible without allowing it to fall to the ground. Ancient Greek drawings represent a game almost identical with battledore and shuttlecock, and it has been popular in China, Japan, India, and Thailand for at least 2,000 years. It has been played in Europe for centuries. Badminton is a further development of the game

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