Definizione monolingua

shuttlecock

shuttlecock (third-person singular simple present shuttlecocks, present participle shuttlecocking, simple past and past participle shuttlecocked)

1. to move or be moved rapidly back-and-forth

shuttlecock (plural shuttlecocks)

1. (badminton) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton as a ball is used in other racquet games.
   • 1859, Ebenezer Landells, The boys own toy-maker, page 122,

     The practice of the game in this country is to keep the shuttlecock in the air by striking it from one person to another.

   • 1696, Pierre Nicole, Moral Essayes, Containd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties, page 237,

     It is a Ve??el which mu?t be filled with Sand to ballance it, otherwi?e it will overturn, and become the Shuttlecock of all ?ort of Winds.

   • 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, ch 123

     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.

   • 1862 - General Halleck to General Burnside, Official Records, s.1, vol.21, page 891

     They [i.e. the Confederates] are trying to make you play the game of shuttlecock, by sending troops backward and forward to Harpers Ferry.

   • 1897 — Henry James, What Maisie Knew, Ch. 2

     Crudely as they had calculated they were at first justified by the event: she was the little feathered shuttlecock they could fiercely keep flying between them.

   • 1906 — Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, ch 11

     Bobbie burned the feathers of the shuttlecock one by one under his nose,

   • 1997, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (trans.), Marcel Proust (auth.), Swanns Way, page 460,

     ... in front of which a little girl with reddish hair was playing with a shuttlecock;

Definizione dizionario shuttlecock

	volano
	a lightweight object used in badminton
	Specie di pallina, costituita da una mezza sfera di sughero o gomma con una corona di penne usata per il Badminton.
	Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers.

Altri significati:

to move or be moved rapidly back-and-forth

(badminton) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton as a ball is used in other racquet games.