The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
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Battledore
//ˈbæ.təl.dɔː//
Synonyms for "battledore" (89 found)
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Related words (44)
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45 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- بَيْذَر noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- بَيْزَارَة noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- بَيْزَر noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- كُذِين noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- toxmaq noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Basque
1 entries- lixiba-pala noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Breton
1 entries- golvazh noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Catalan
1 entries- pala de rentar noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Dutch
1 entries- wasklopper noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Estonian
1 entries- kurikas noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Finnish
3 entries- karttu noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- pesukarttu noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- pyykkikarttu noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
French
1 entries- battoir noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
German
4 entries- Bleuel noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- Federballschläger noun (The racket used in this game)
- Waschbleuel noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- Wäschebleuel noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Greek
1 entries- κόπανος noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Italian
1 entries- mestola noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Latin
2 entries- tudes fullōnis noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- tudes fullōnum noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kultuvė noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Bleil noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- Blëll noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- şûnik noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- banketre noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Persian
2 entries- کدنگ noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- کدین noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Polish
2 entries- kijanka noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- rakietka noun (The racket used in this game)
Russian
1 entries- валёк noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Spanish
2 entries- moza noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- pala de lavar noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Swedish
2 entries- klappbräda noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- klappträ noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Ukrainian
2 entries- пра́ник noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- прач noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Welsh
2 entries- golchbren noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
- golchffon noun (Bat or beetle for washing clothes)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
There were nights when it seemed to me that our position could be stormed by twenty Boy Scouts armed with airguns, or twenty Girl Guides armed with battledores, for that matter.
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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.
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