SHUTTLECOCK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does shuttlecock mean? 

• SHUTTLECOCK (noun)
  The noun SHUTTLECOCK has 1 sense:

1. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

  Familiarity information: SHUTTLECOCK used as a noun is very rare.

• SHUTTLECOCK (verb)
  The verb SHUTTLECOCK has 1 sense:

1. send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock

  Familiarity information: SHUTTLECOCK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUTTLECOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bird; birdie; shuttle; shuttlecock

Hypernyms ("shuttlecock" is a kind of...):

badminton equipment (equipment for playing the game of badminton)

Derivation:

shuttlecock (send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock)

• SHUTTLECOCK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "shuttlecock" is one way to...):

bandy (toss or strike a ball back and forth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

shuttlecock (badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers)

 Context examples 

Adele here ran before him with her shuttlecock.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was knocked about like a shuttlecock, until, finally, like Johnson, he was beaten and kicked as he lay helpless on the deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was one afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and down a long beech avenue within sight of her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)