Battledoor

[bætldɔ:]

Definition

(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.

Typed by Lloyd

Definition

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

Typist: Sophie