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battledore and shuttlecock

NOUN
  1. an ancient racket game

How To Use battledore and shuttlecock In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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.
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