different between shuttlecock vs shuttler

English

Alternative forms

• shittlecock

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???tl?k?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???tl?k?k/

Etymology

From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).

Noun

shuttlecock (countable and uncountable, plural shuttlecocks) (badminton)

1. (countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. [from early 16th c.]

   Synonym: birdie
2. (uncountable, dated) The game of badminton.
   • 1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)

     Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock […]

Translations

Related terms

• battledore and shuttlecock

Verb

shuttlecock (third-person singular simple present shuttlecocks, present participle shuttlecocking, simple past and past participle shuttlecocked)

1. To move rapidly back and forth
2. To send or toss back and forth; to bandy
   • 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

     if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!

Translations

Further reading

• shuttlecock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

shuttle +? -er

Noun

shuttler (plural shuttlers)

1. A badminton player.

Related terms

• shuttlecock

Anagrams

• rustleth, thrustle