shuttlecock

IPA: ʃˈʌtʌɫkɑk

noun

  • (countable) 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. [from early 16th c.]
  • (uncountable, dated) The game of badminton.

verb

  • To move rapidly back and forth.
  • To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.
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Examples of "shuttlecock" in Sentences

  • Vertical position of the shuttlecock.
  • Shuttlecock flight is strongly affected by wind.
  • Position of the shuttlecock and receiving player.
  • Rutan has compared this to a falling shuttlecock.
  • It is a fault if the shuttlecock hits the ceiling.
  • The shuttlecock is a cork in which feathers have been inserted.
  • The Bauer Shuttlecock popularized badminton in the United States.
  • Also the aim is for the shuttlecock not to land outside the court.
  • Bauer would go on to develop and patent a standardized shuttlecock.
  • It'll give you an excuse to say "shuttlecock" without feeling silly.
  • Also included was a built in badminton net with a shuttlecock launcher.
  • A shuttlecock is a high drag projectile used in the sport of badminton.
  • The "shuttlecock" configuration is for sub-orbital speeds, not orbital speeds.
  • Every one promised, as it were, to be a battle-dore if I would be the other, and the shuttlecock was to be our letters, — egad!
  • Upon its return to earth, the spacecraft transforms from an airplane-like shape to a "shuttlecock," wafting down through the atmosphere yet not overheating.
  • I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.
  • Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour.

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