Shuttlecock

['ʃʌt(ə)lkɒk] or ['ʃʌtl'kɑk]

(noun.) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers.

(verb.) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock.

Typed by Catherine--From WordNet

(n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.

(v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.

Inputed by Andre

Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
And shuttlecock, now--I don't know a finer game than shuttlecock for the daytime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot--ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Doubtful which might be the clarionet-stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Adele here ran before him with her shuttlecock. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
The window being accessible from the footway, he looked in over the blind, returned the shuttlecock, and put his question. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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