Noun

(en noun)

(badminton) 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.

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, year = 1851 , first = Herman , last = Melville , authorlink = Herman Melville , title = , section = , passage = 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. }}

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, year = 1859 , first = Ebenezer , last = Landells , title = The Boy's Own Toy-maker , page = 122 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=2EMCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA130&dq=shuttlecock , passage = The practice of the game in this country is to keep the shuttlecock in the air by striking it from one person to another. }}

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, year = 1897 , first = Henry , last = James , authorlink = Henry James , title = , section = , passage = Crudely as they had calculated they were at first justified by the event: she was the little feathered shuttlecock they could fiercely keep flying between them. }}

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(dated) The game of badminton.

* 1830 , Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)

Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock

Noun

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A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.