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shuttlecock

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shuttlecock
a light cone consisting of a cork stub with feathered flights, struck to and fro in badminton and battledore


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And shuttlecock, now--I don't know a finer game than shuttlecock for the daytime.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you ain't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
Doubtful which might be the clarionet-stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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