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rackets

English

Noun

rackets

  1. plural of racket

rackets (uncountable)

  1. The game of racquets.

Anagrams

  • restack, retacks, stacker, tackers

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

rackets

  1. Plural form of racket

French

Noun

rackets m

  1. plural of racket

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battledore

English

Etymology

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Alternative forms

  • battledoor

Noun

battledore (plural battledores)

  1. A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
  2. The racket used in this game.
  3. (obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
    • 1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface
      You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.
  4. (historical) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
    • 1563, John Foxe, The Book of Martyrs, ch. 21
      There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.

Derived terms

  • know B from a battledore, know a B from a battledore

Translations

Anagrams

  • tetralobed

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