"battledore and shuttlecock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch XV, p242:",
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          "ref": "1953 — Bertrand Russell, 'Satan in the Suburbs' or ' Horrors Manufactured Here' . (A short story published in 'Satan in the Suburbs and other stories', Penguin Books (1953), at p.19.)",
          "text": "At night before I slept alternate horrors of ruin buffeted me this way and that in an endless game of battledore and shuttlecock."
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        "An early version of the game badminton."
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        "(obsolete) An early version of the game badminton."
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