BATTLEDORE

battledore, battledore and shuttlecock

(noun) an ancient racket game

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• tetralobed

Source: Wiktionary



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UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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