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Battledoor   Listen
noun
battledoor  n.  
1.
An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. (Also spelled battledore)
2.
A child's hornbook. (Obs.)





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"Battledoor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cornaro, and one sees from most of my windows, so high are they, the whole Marca Trevigiana, with its tragic and dramatic associations of the early Middle Ages; the Eccelini, the Azzi, the incessant wars in which towns were treated by the tyrants like shuttlecocks in the game of battledoor. ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis


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