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Definition of: battledore
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(bat′l·dôr, -dōr) noun
1. A flat paddle or bat, either of wood, webbed, or covered with parchment, used to drive a shuttlecock.
2. The game in which a shuttlecock is so batted: also battledore and shuttlecock.
—v.t. & v.i. ·dored, ·doring To drive or fly back and forth. [? <Provençal batedor an implement for beating]
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