shuttlecock
A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used…A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
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» How are we meant to play badminton without a shuttlecock?
zumley · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable)A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
Federball
вола́нvolán, вола́нчикvolánčik
вола́нvolán
badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
(dated, uncountable)The game of badminton.
Examples
6 sentencesHow are we meant to play badminton without a shuttlecock?
I bought two new shuttlecocks from the sporting goods store.
I bought myself a badminton racquet but I forgot to buy shuttlecocks.
ruЯ купил себе ракетку для бадминтона, но забыл купить воланы. — Wezel
I bought a second badminton racket for myself, but I forgot to buy a shuttlecock.
If you want to play badminton, you'll want to bring the shuttlecock, not the ball.
Translations
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Origin
From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cFrom shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).
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Forms
plural: shuttlecocksSynonyms
3 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.