shuttlecock
nounEtymology
From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).
Definitions
A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in…
A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
- In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals, go round and round.
- The practice of the game in this country is to keep the shuttlecock in the air by striking it from one person to another.
The game of badminton.
- Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.
- Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock […]
To move rapidly back and forth.
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To send or toss back and forth
To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.
- to shuttlecock words
- if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!
The neighborhood
- neighborbattledore and shuttlecock
- neighborshuttlecock diplomacy
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at shuttlecock. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at shuttlecock. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at shuttlecock
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA