Meanings
- historicaluncountableAn early version of the game badminton.
At night before I slept alternate horrors of ruin buffeted me this way and that in an endless game of battledore and shuttlecock.
1953 — Bertrand Russell, 'Satan in the Suburbs' or ' Horrors Manufactured Here' . (A short story published in 'Satan in the Suburbs and other stories', Penguin Books (1953), at p.19.)1 more example
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.
1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch XV, p242
Synonyms & antonyms
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battledore and shuttlecock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/battledore%20and%20shuttlecock
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