Meaning of shittlecock | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of shuttlecock (“the game or the object”).

alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“What's the next business after shittlecock, now?”

“Shittlecock toss'd to and fro, Diverts us, and warms the chill Blood […]”

“Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.”

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