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Battledoor   Listen
noun
battledoor  n.  
1.
An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. (Also spelled battledore)
2.
A child's hornbook. (Obs.)





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... up and down the arms of his bench with his left hand, while with a pair of compasses in his right he carefully gauged the diameter of the revolving lantern, and then smoothed away its rough-cast edges by means of a blackened bit of wood, somewhat of the shape, and bearing the name, of a battledoor. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 • Various


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