Shuttlecock Definition

shŭtl-kŏk
shuttlecocks
noun
shuttlecocks
In badminton or other similar games, a rounded piece of cork having a flat end stuck with feathers or, now, a piece of plastic formed to resemble this: it is struck back and forth across a net with rackets or paddles.
Webster's New World
The game of battledore and shuttlecock.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To go, send, or bandy back and forth.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Shuttlecock

Noun

Singular:
shuttlecock
Plural:
shuttlecocks

Origin of Shuttlecock

  • shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers). Attested from 1522.

    From Wiktionary

Shuttlecock Sentence Examples

  • Lord Temple endeavoured to secure his exclusion on the ground that he had taken orders in the Church, and one of Gilray's caricatures delineates the two politicians, Temple and Camelford, playing at battledore and shuttlecock, with Horne Tooke as the shuttlecock.

  • During nearly the whole of the 18th century Courland, devastated by continual wars, was a shuttlecock between Russia and Poland; until eventually in 1795 the assembly of the nobles placed it under the Russian sceptre.

  • Kellogg once hit a shuttlecock into the crowd in disbelief and Clark yelled desperately at 1-14 in the second game.

  • Indeed, as it is, we are already partially acquainted with one of these early intermediate creatures (Tritylodon), which forms a kind of zoological shuttlecock, being, so to speak, hit from one group to another, and back again, by the various zoologists by whom its scanty remains have been studied.

  • Delia was flapping about like the squawking shuttlecock we share the dining room with.

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