10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BATTLEDOOR»
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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 ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BATTLEDOOR»
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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, Oct 09»
