Battledore

The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot. ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)

The combatants, being stripped and painted and each provided with a kind of battledore or racket, in shape resembling the letter P with a handle about two feet long and a head loosely wrought with network so as to form ❋ John Franklin (1816)

The combatants being stript and painted, and each provided with a kind of battledore or racket, in shape resembling the letter P, with a handle about two feet long and a head loosely wrought with net-work, so as to form a shallow bag, range themselves on different sides. ❋ John Franklin (1816)

Shuttlecock and battledore, "he said obscurely," .... ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lane began by negotiating a truce in a price war in the Far East between Royal Dutch and Shell and by putting an end to what he called the damaging “battledore and shuttlecock game of accusation” between Samuel and Deterding. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)

One day I gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and green feathers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore. ❋ Unknown (2007)

TUITION; and behind the blind was a little white – faced boy, with a slice of bread – and – butter and a battledore. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His father too had loved games, playing battledore and shuttlecock even as Lille had fallen. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)

Money is a serious thing; and when gone cannot be had back by a shuffle in the game, or a fortunate blow with the battledore, as may political power, or reputation, or fashion. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was at this moment when he began to perceive that his fortune would return to him, when he became aware that he was knocked about like a shuttlecock from a battledore, that his pride came by its first fall. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was a battledore and shuttlecock talk, to be kept going until the door opened and the gentlemen came in. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Do you not feel that the girls should not be chucked about like balls from a battledore?” asked Mrs Dosett. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And then the evening came, the winter evening which he loved best, and he dreamt in the firelight and watched the shadows dance uncouthly and the sooty films play upon the bars until the lamp was brought, and in that level light he had out his netting, or wound silk, and then, perhaps, Ann sang to the harpsichord and Mary and William played battledore and shuttlecock together. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Anything and everything serves to keep up a game of battledore and shuttlecock with words and ideas. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)