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racket

Music
a. a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch
b. a reed stop on an organ of deep bass pitch
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"What do you mean by making such a racket?" asked the shaggy man, sternly.
There was a muleteer to every donkey and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their goad sticks, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded like "Sekki- yah!" and kept up a din and a racket that was worse than Bedlam itself.
It growls and grumbles and clicks and scratches so it spoils the music, and your machinery rumbles so that the racket drowns every tune you attempt."
He wos a wery peaceful, inoffendin' little creetur, and wos alvays a-bustlin' about for somebody, or playin' rackets and never vinnin'; till at last the turnkeys they got quite fond on him, and he wos in the lodge ev'ry night, a-chattering vith 'em, and tellin' stories, and all that 'ere.
He wore no neckerchief, as he had been playing rackets all day, and his Open shirt collar displayed their full luxuriance.
He looked at the old shops, still there, still selling the same things; the booksellers with school-books, pious works, and the latest novels in one window and photographs of the Cathedral and of the city in the other; the games shop, with its cricket bats, fishing tackle, tennis rackets, and footballs; the tailor from whom he had got clothes all through his boyhood; and the fishmonger where his uncle whenever he came to Tercanbury bought fish.
Murray Whitelaw caught the star's racket when he threw it into the crowd after beating Belgium's David Goffin to win the cup for Team GB.
Adam Cutler, who bought the signed racket at a charity auction, hopes to make an ace profit in tonight's episode of the Channel 4 programme.
PowerAngle is the healthiest tennis racket for a player's arm, as PowerAngle's equal-length diagonals are scientifically proven to reduce 40% of the harmful vibrations transmitted by conventionally-strung rackets.
Summary: Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 19 (ANI): Six girls of Thai nationality were rescued after Metropolitan police raided a spa and busted a sex racket operating from an upscale Mumbai locality on Sunday.
[ClickPress, Tue Jul 16 2019] The squash racket industry will continue to move forward at a steady rate, driven by new technologies and developments in design and performance of squash rackets.
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