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Battledore

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Noun

1. badminton racket, badminton racquet, battledore

a light long-handled racket used by badminton players

2. battledore, battledore and shuttlecock

an ancient racket game

battledore and shuttlecock

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Battledore

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noun

1. Also called: battledore and shuttlecock

an ancient racket game

2.

a light racket, smaller than a tennis racket, used for striking the shuttlecock in this game

3.

(formerly) a wooden utensil used for beating clothes, in baking, etc

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Battledore

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noun

1.

a flat paddle or racket used to hit a shuttlecock back and forth in a game (called battledore and shuttlecock) from which badminton developed

2.

this game

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Battledore

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n.

1.

a. An early form of badminton played with a flat wooden paddle and a shuttlecock.

b. The paddle used in this game.

2. A badminton racket.

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