battledore

How To Use battledore In A Sentence

• One day I gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and green feathers. Les Miserables
• The title refers to battledores that were often elaborately decorated, sometimes with images made out of pieces of cut coloured-cloth.
• The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
• Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair. The Complete Stories
• He rode his favourite hobby of gardening, and took his regular 'ante-jentacular' and 'post-prandial' walks, and played battledore and shuttlecock in the intervals of codification. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
• Shuttlecock and battledore, "he said obscurely," .... “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
• Ethel and Edith Dillon, as they were known to their parents, were playing the then-fashionable game of battledore, an early version of table tennis, in the family home at Clonbrock House.
• The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore. Oliver Twist
• Jackies on the outside of the partition with tops, balls, bats, and battledores, as a member of the long-robed fraternity within, who impose on grown country gentlemen with bouncing brocards of law. Redgauntlet
• Lane began by negotiating a truce in a price war in the Far East between Royal Dutch and Shell and by putting an end to what he called the damaging “battledore and shuttlecock game of accusation” between Samuel and Deterding. The Prize