Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The object hit back and forth over the net in badminton, consisting of a conical array of feathers or a conical plastic mesh attached to a small rounded end of cork or rubber.
- intransitive verb To throw or send back and forth like a shuttlecock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of cork, or of similar light material, in one end of which feathers are stuck, made to be struck by a battledore in play; also, the play or game. See phrase below.
- noun A malvaceous shrub, Periptera punicea of Mexico, the only species of a still dubious genus. It has crimson flowers and a many-celled radiate capsule, one or other suggesting the name.
- To throw or bandy backward and forward like a shuttlecock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To send or toss to and fro; to bandy.
- noun A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun badminton A
lightweight object that isconical in shape with acork orrubber -covered nose , used inbadminton the way a ball is used in otherracquet games. - verb To move rapidly back and forth
- verb To send or toss back and forth; to
bandy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
- verb send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every one promised, as it were, to be a battle-dore if I would be the other, and the shuttlecock was to be our letters, — egad!
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The shuttlecock is a cork in which feathers have been inserted.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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Upon its return to earth, the spacecraft transforms from an airplane-like shape to a "shuttlecock," wafting down through the atmosphere yet not overheating.
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I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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It'll give you an excuse to say "shuttlecock" without feeling silly.
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It'll give you an excuse to say "shuttlecock" without feeling silly.
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The "shuttlecock" configuration is for sub-orbital speeds, not orbital speeds.
SPACE.com 2010
tbtabby commented on the word shuttlecock
How do they expect us to fight a war without shuttlecocks?!
May 26, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word shuttlecock
July 19, 2010