| 单词 | battledore and shuttlecock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbattledore and shuttlecock 2. The game (more fully battledore and shuttlecock, now played only by children) in which the shuttlecock is hit with the battledore backwards and forwards between two players, or by one player into the air as many times as possible without dropping it. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun] shuttlec1440 shuttlecock1601 battledore1719 badminton1863 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. iv. sig. E2 Shee can..play at Shittle-cock . View more context for this quotation 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. ii. iv. 255 The ordinary recreations which we haue in Winter,..are Cardes,..shuttlecocke, balliardes,..&c. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 20 Sept. (1948) I. 364 And get somebody to play at shuttlecock with you, madam Stella. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xiv Pray Mr. F...are you fond of shuttlecock? < as lemmas |
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