| 单词 | battledore |
| 释义 | battledore /bat"l dawr', -dohr'/, n. , v. , battledored, battledoring. n. 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. v.t. , v.i. 4. to toss or fly back and forth: to battledore the plan among one's colleagues. [1400-50; late ME batyldo(u)re washing beetle, equiv. to batyl to beat (clothes) in washing (freq. of BAT1) + -dore dung beetle (BEETLE1 for BEETLE2 by way of pun, with allusion to filth on clothes). See DOR1] |
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