Saturday, September 29, 2012

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: shuttlecock

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shuttlecock
Sep 29th 2012, 10:41

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* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|peteca}}

  

* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|peteca}}
 

* Russian: {{t+|ru|волан|m|tr=volán}}, {{t-|ru|воланчик|m|tr=volánčik}}

  

* Russian: {{t+|ru|волан|m|tr=volán}}, {{t-|ru|воланчик|m|tr=volánčik}}
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* Serbian: {{t-|sr|лоптица|f|tr=loptica|sc=Cyrl}}

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* Serbo-Croatian: {{t|sh|лоптица|f|tr=loptica|sc=Cyrl}}
 

* Spanish: {{t+|es|volante|m}}

  

* Spanish: {{t+|es|volante|m}}
 

* Swedish: {{t+|sv|fjäderboll}}

  

* Swedish: {{t+|sv|fjäderboll}}

Latest revision as of 10:41, 29 September 2012

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[edit] English

A shuttlecock.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology

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). Attested from 1522.

[edit] Noun

shuttlecock (plural shuttlecocks)

  1. (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.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 123:
      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.
    • 1859, Ebenezer Landells, The Boy's Own Toy-maker, page 122:
      The practice of the game in this country is to keep the shuttlecock in the air by striking it from one person to another.
    • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, ch. 2:
      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.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see the citations page.

[edit] Synonyms

  • (lightweight object used in badminton): birdie

[edit] Translations

badminton ball

[edit] Related terms

[edit] Verb

shuttlecock (third-person singular simple present shuttlecocks, present participle shuttlecocking, simple past and past participle shuttlecocked)

  1. To move rapidly back and forth
  2. To send or toss back and forth; to bandy
    to shuttlecock words
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

[edit] Translations

to move rapidly back and forth
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