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Meanings of shuttlecock in English
Badminton equipment.
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Usage of shuttlecock in English
1
Yes; but many a woman's heart has been treated as a shuttlecock.
2
The head of the prisoner becomes a shuttlecock between the advocate and magistrate.
3
The shuttlecock is a cork in which feathers have been inserted.
4
Herr Behnisch will be very angry when you tell him about the shuttlecock.
5
It racks a man's brain to play shuttlecock with it in that fashion.
6
She has been thrown to and fro like a shuttlecock a dozen times.
7
Almost every night my brain was at battledore and shuttlecock with weird thoughts.
8
If battledore and shuttlecock formed the evening's sport, his was the cleverest racket-hand.
9
I was tossed from Emily to Eugenia, like a shuttlecock between two battledores.
10
And shuttlecock, now- Idon'tknow a finer game than shuttlecock for the daytime.
11
Disaster was in the air, and Monmouth was but the shuttlecock of unscrupulous men.
12
So it is that the shuttlecock of Beauty is ever kept in living movement.
13
The shuttlecock of conversation was lightly bandied to and fro across the round table.
14
They kick the shuttlecock with the sides of their feet.
15
They do this so fast that the shuttlecock hardly ever falls to the ground.
16
Then began a most extraordinary game of battledore and shuttlecock.
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United Kingdom
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