Battledoor

[bætldɔ:]

解釋/意思:

(n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

(n.) A child's hornbook.

整理:劳埃德

解釋/意思:

n. a light bat for striking a ball or shuttlecock.—Not to know a B from a battledoor to be thoroughly ignorant.

手打:索菲