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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'shuttlecock' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions shuttlecock noun  (context, badminton) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton as a ball is used in other racquet games. 1859, Ebenezer Landells, The boy's own toy-maker, page 122, :The practice of the game in this country is to keep the in the air by striking it from one person to another. Translations:  Dutch: shuttle German: Federball (trans-bottom) verb  to move or be moved rapidly back-and-forth Etymology: (term, shuttle) (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + (term, cock) (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers). Attested from 1522.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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