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Meanings of shuttlecocks in English
Usage of shuttlecocks in English
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.
6
The toy shops have battledores and shuttlecocks!
7
The New Yorker, March 26, 1938 P. 11 Talk story about badminton shuttlecocks.
8
Presently the battledores of both batteries were at work, and rapid compliments of shuttlecocks were very promptly exchanged.
9
The sand buffeted them like shuttlecocks.
10
Besides this, the little girls had what is called a flag-race, and a contest with battledores and shuttlecocks.
11
And she repeated the word "shuttlecocks" three times.
12
Accusations flew between like shuttlecocks.
13
Back, then, we bustled to the Casa Consistorial, with the sensation of shuttlecocks, played between battledores at cross purposes.
14
Maia and Jan had never had a single home, but had oscillated between their parents' families like two small shuttlecocks.
15
She cared not a jot for the crowd and later defiantly blamed Sindhu for not changing shuttlecocks soon enough on serve.
16
Is it companionship, do you think, for me to look on while she walks a coranto or tosses shuttlecocks with De Malfort?
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Shuttlecocks through the time