BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battledore and shuttlecock mean? 

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

1. an ancient racket game

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient racket game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battledore; battledore and shuttlecock

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

badminton (a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net)

 Context examples 

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)