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Meanings of shuttlecocks in English
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
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
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.
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