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

n. The paddle used in this game.

n. A badminton racket.

n. A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.

n. The racket used in this game.

n. A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.

n. same as battledoor.

n. A bat or beetle used in washing clothes, or for smoothing them out while being laundered.

n. An instrument shaped like a racket, but smaller, used in playing the game of battledore and shuttlecock.

n. A paddle for a canoe.

n. In glass-making, a flat square piece of polished iron with a wooden handle, used for flattening the bottoms of tumblers, or for similar purposes.

n. A kind of paddle with a long handle, used for placing loaves in a baker's oven.

n. A kind of horn-book: so called from its shape.

n. a light long-handled racket used by badminton players

n. an ancient racket game

"The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot."

battledores   

racket    racquet    badminton   

battledore-boy    battledore-barley   

battledoor   

battledore and shuttlecock   

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