English Dictionary

battledore

名詞

廃用 歴史的

A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton. / The racket used in this game. / (obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.

日本語の意味

シャトルコックとバトルドア（正しくはバトルドアとシャトルコック）を使って行うゲーム。バドミントンの前身となった遊び。 / このゲームで使用されるラケット。 / （古語）子供がアルファベット学習のために使うホーンブック。

At the village summer fair, the children challenged one another to a battledore match, using small wooden paddles to keep the feathered shuttlecock in the air.

村の夏祭りで、子どもたちは羽根突きの試合に挑み、小さな木のラケットで羽根を空中に保ちながら笑っていました。

意味（1）

A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.

意味（2）

The racket used in this game.

Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.

You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.

意味（4）

(historical) A wooden paddle-shaped bat or beetle used to wash clothes by beating, stirring, or smoothing them.

There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.

battledores （ plural ）