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Definition of Shuttlecocking
1. shuttlecock [v] - See also: shuttlecock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuttlecocking
Literary usage of Shuttlecocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1920)
"It was then that the Visigoths became Arians and also persuaded the Ostrogoths
and Gepidae to become Arians.1 After shuttlecocking the Ostrogoths and ..."
2. The United Service (1903)
"As many as a dozen applicants for pensions whose claims have been shuttlecocking
about from pillar to post for many moons, have assembled to say that the ..."
3. Specimen Letters by Allen Rogers Benham (1905)
"... dancing, shuttlecocking, etc., as your heart can desire. They generally embargo
us on water expeditions. I know not whether you like dining under a tree ..."
4. The New Jersey Scrap Book of Women Writers by Margaret Tufts Yardley (1893)
"... ahem, that goose of a poet will go shuttlecocking up and down this railroad
all night and never remember to get cut at his own station ; so I shall just ..."
5. Annual Register by Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Edmund Burke (1843)
"In the case of Lewes, the third party on the poll was placed at the head by "
shuttlecocking" the votes ; that is to say, one party alleged that John Thomas ..."
6. Argosy All-story Weekly edited by Frank Andrew Munsey (1898)
"No human brain could stand the terrible strain of this shuttlecocking between
desperate hope and agonizing fear. His whole nervous system seemed suddenly to ..."
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