Shittlecock

What's the next business after shittlecock, now?

Shittlecock toss'd to and fro, Diverts us, and warms the chill Blood […]

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.