shuttlecock

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “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.”

2. isim The game of badminton.

   “Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.”

3. fiil To move rapidly back and forth.
4. fiil To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.

   “to shuttlecock words”