Lexic.us

Definition of Shuttlecock

1. Verb. Send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock.

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

Definition of Shuttlecock

1. n. A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.

2. v. t. To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.

Definition of Shuttlecock

1. Noun. (context: badminton) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton as a ball is used in other racquet games. ¹

2. Verb. to move or be moved rapidly back-and-forth ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shuttlecock

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuttlecock

shutterless shutters shuttest shutteth shutting shutting off shutting out shutting post shutting up shuttle bus

shuttle diplomacy shuttle flow shuttle helicopter shuttle vector shuttlecock (current term) shuttlecock fern shuttlecocked shuttlecocking shuttlecocks shuttlecork

shuttlecraft shuttlecrafts shuttled shuttleless shuttler shuttlers shuttles shuttlewise shuttling

Literary usage of Shuttlecock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"Instead of shuttlecock being more especially a game for girls, ... There is no battledore used by the Chinese, but the shuttlecock is kept up in the air by ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Instead of the usual shuttlecock, most players prefer a ball of Berlin wool ... Hand-out—The server or striker is out when the shuttlecock does not clear ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A, then servri to В., ie, A. standing in the court chosen by him, strikes the shuttlecock over the net with the racket into the diagonally opposed court Б. ..."

4. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"shuttlecock TOY-MAN. LORD Macartney informed us, that the inhabitants of Cochin-China played at the shuttlecock, not with raquets, nor with the hands, ..."

5. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"shuttlecock TOY.MAN. LORD Macartney informed us, that the inhabitants of Cochin-China played at the shuttlecock, not with raquets, nor with, the hands, ..."

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