battledore, battledore and shuttlecock
(noun) an ancient racket game
Source: WordNet® 3.1
battledore (plural battledores)
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.
(historical) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
• tetralobed
Source: Wiktionary
23 April 2025
(adjective) not married or related to the unmarried state; “unmarried men and women”; “unmarried life”; “sex and the single girl”; “single parenthood”; “are you married or single?”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
