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Meanings of shuttlecock in English
Badminton equipment.
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Synonyms
Examples for "bird"
Examples for "bird"
1
It happened quite quickly, and soon the bird was no longer faded.
2
However, Mr Wills said bird restoration might one day be too successful.
3
The bird welfare charity is unveiling its environmental programme for government today.
4
A number of companies and national governments are developing bird flu vaccines.
5
On Tuesday, officials said bird flu had spread to a new area.
1
Power would be needed to operate the shuttle monorail and Mission Control.
2
The warning follows a week of shuttle diplomacy between London and Brussels.
3
Grayson brought the shuttle in to land with a long, slow approach.
4
Today is scheduled to be the final flight for space shuttle Endeavour.
5
Through them Erlendur saw yet another tourist shuttle stop outside the hotel.
1
Montgomerie holed a birdie putt of nearly 35 feet at the second.
2
From far off I hear the sound of...a badminton birdie being hit?
3
Noren also blitzed his way to a birdie hat-trick from the 12th.
4
The US boys are in a good spot for a birdie though.
5
A birdie two at the short par-three sixth started the birdie blitz.
1
An English outdoor game similar to lawn tennis but played with shuttlecocks.
2
The shot whizzed across the broad interval like shuttlecocks across a great hall.
3
Then it's just one four-ton iron tube after another jerking backwards as lightly as shuttlecocks.
4
The rest is used for building materials and in items like fishing tackle and badminton shuttlecocks.
5
White was one of those financial shuttlecocks which shrewd moneylenders toss from one to the other.
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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