10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «BATTLEDOOR» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
Entdecke den Gebrauch von
battledoor in der folgenden bibliographischen Auswahl. Bücher, die mit
battledoor im Zusammenhang stehen und kurze Auszüge derselben, um seinen Gebrauch in der Literatur kontextbezogen darzustellen.
Battledoor, the light bat with which the shuttlecock is bandied to and fro, is a
corrupted form of the Spanish batidor or batador, a striker, or beetle, from batir to
beat. Formerly it denoted the beetle used by laundresses in beating and washing
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American Indian Sports Heritage
This game was played by striking a shuttlecock (usually made of corn husks and
feathers) with a wooden battledoor (a flattened, paddle-type Figure 5.9. Stilts
used by the Hopi, Zuni, and Shoshoni 132 • American Indian Sports Heritage.
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
You shall not need to buy a hook : No, scorn to distinguish a b from a battledoor.
Decker's GuFs Hornb. Procem. p. 23. repr. of 1812. For in this age of criticks are
such store, That of a B will make a battledoor. J. Taylor's Motto. Dedic. To the ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Anonymous. 1621. Montagu, Diatriba, 118. The clergy of this time were . . . not
able to say bo toa battledore. 1630. Taylor, Motto, 'Dedication.' For in this age of
criticks are such store, That of a B will make a battledoor. Ibid., ' Dedication ' to ...
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The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia
Never knock, you that strive to be ninnyhammer ; but with your feet spurn open
the door, and enter into our school : you shall not need to buy books ; no ; 3*
scorn to distinguish a B from a battledoor ; only look that your ears be long
enough to ...
Thomas Dekker, John Nott, 1812
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A Refutation of Some of the More Modern Misrepresentations ...
It may be premised, before I endeavour to clear up this passage, which I am
willing to confess is a likely one to occasion censure, that the popular expression,
George Fox's Battledoor, is inaccurate (' his- Battledoor,' fay our editors). Let us
hear ...
Joseph Gurney Bevan, 1800
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
1. Her house the heav'n by this bright moon aye clenr'd. Fair/. T. ii. 14. The word
is hardly yet obsolete in poetry. Aygulet. See Aigu let, and Aglet. B» To know a B
from a battledoor. A cant phrase, apparently very senseless, but which probably ...
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A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of The ...
TO PLAY AT BATTLEDOOR AND SHITTLECOCK; seems, toe plee het bcytel d'
hoore, hand schiet t'el gae oock ; q. e. to perform this the bat (raquette) is what is
what is wanted, then (at once) strike towards some point or other, your
companion ...
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Diversions of Hollycot, or The mother's art of thinking, by ...
Sophia if she had asked it civilly : — there it is for her." " You know, Charles, I give
you every thing before you ask. — I gave you my new skipping- rope, and my
tambourine, and many things. — I won't have your battledoor now, — I don't care
...
Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1828
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The Yorkshireman, a religious and literary journal, by a ...
for beech ; the wood of which it was made, in the form of a Battledoor, the square
part, above the handle, (b) defended with a clear piece of horn. On the beech
itself, before the invention of printing, the letters must have been written :
afterwards ...
NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «BATTLEDOOR» VORKOMMT
Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
battledoor im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
FULL TEXT: Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Balloon Hoax,' published 1844 …
The rudder was a light frame of cane covered with silk, shaped somewhat like a battledoor, and was about 3 feet long, and at the widest, one ... «New York Daily News, Okt 09»
