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Definition: Battledore |
BattledoreNoun1. A light long-handled racket used by badminton players. 2. An ancient racket game. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "battledore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Battledore (3 syl.) means, properly, a baton for washing linen by striking on it to knock out the dirt. The plan is still common in France. The word is the French battoir, a beater used by washerwomen; Portuguese, Batidor, Spanish, batidero, a wash-board. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BattledoreSynonyms: badminton racket (n), badminton racquet (n), battledore and shuttlecock (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Interchange | Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite. |
Barter; tit for tat; (retaliation); cross fire,barter; tit for tat; (retaliation); cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Man and woman playing battledore and shuttlecock on hotel porch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One day, I gave you a willow battledore, and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue, and green feathers |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "battledore": battledore and shuttlecock ♦ play at battledore and shuttlecock. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
battledore | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "battledore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | raketë (missile, projectile, racket, racquet, rocket). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тупалка (beater). (various references) | |
Chinese | 板羽球 (battledore and shuttlecock, shuttlecock). (various references) | |
Danish | forholderbraedt (pallette), fodholderbraet (pallette). (various references) | |
Dutch | voetenplankje (pallette). (various references) | |
French | planche (bar), palette (baffle). (various references) | |
German | Bodenbrett (pallette), Treibholz (driftwood), Plätteisen (iron). (various references) | |
Greek | ρασκέττα (pallette). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tollaslabdaütő, sulyok (bat, beetle, dolly, mall, mallet, maul, monkey, ram), péklapát (peel). (various references) | |
Italian | volano (badminton, fly wheel, flywheel, shuttle cock), racchetta per il volano, paletta per ribassare i fondi (pallette). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 羽子板 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | は"いた. (various references) | |
Manx | bwoid niaghan (chopper). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attledorebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raqueta (racquet), pau para bater roupa, palette (pallette). (various references) | |
Romanian | badminton, rachetã (missile, racket, rocket, snow shoe). (various references) | |
Russian | валек (outrigger, singletree, swingletree). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prakljača, oklagija (rolling pin). (various references) | |
Spanish | paleta (blade, ice lolly, paddle, palette, pallet, spreader, trowel). (various references) | |
Swedish | brödkavle (rolling pin, rolling-pin), strykplåt (pallette), strykbräde (ironing board). (various references) | |
Turkish | tüylü mantarlarla oynanan oyunun raketi, tüylü mantarlar ve raketle oynanan bir oyun (battledore and shuttle-cock), çamaşır tokmağı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стукалка, качалка (calender), валок (swath), перекидатися (bandy, fall over, keel over, overset, overturn, somersault, tipple, trip, tumble, upset). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-o-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: blattered, rebottled, tolerated. | |
-2 letters: battered, brattled, dotterel, leeboard, rebottle, tableted, tolerate. | |
-3 letters: abetted, abetter, abettor, aborted, alerted, altered, battled, battler, belated, berated, beretta, blatted, blatter, bleared, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, blotted, blotter, borated, bottled, bottler, brattle, debater, delator, dottrel, earlobe, labored, leotard, lobated, rattled, rebated, related, retable, rotated, tabered, tabored, taboret, tetrode, totable. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: obliterated. | |
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