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"en:Alphabets",
"en:Education",
"en:Laundry",
"en:Sports",
"en:Sports equipment",
"en:Tools"
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"derived": [
{
"word": "know B from a battledore"
},
{
"word": "know a B from a battledore"
}
],
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"2": "enm",
"3": "batildore"
},
"expansion": "Middle English batildore",
"name": "inh"
},
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"args": {
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"3": "betel",
"t": "bat, club"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pro",
"3": "batedor",
"t": "beater, bat"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English batildore, batylledore, batildure, batyldoure, batyndore, probably as a blend of Middle English betel (“bat, club”) and Old Occitan batedor (“beater, bat”).",
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton."
],
"links": [
[
"shuttlecock",
"shuttlecock"
],
[
"rackets",
"rackets"
],
[
"battledore and shuttlecock",
"battledore and shuttlecock"
],
[
"badminton",
"badminton"
]
]
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1797, George Staunton, “Cochin-china”, in An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; […] In Two Volumes, […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge] Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 339:",
"text": "Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:",
"text": "There were nights when it seemed to me that our position could be stormed by twenty Boy Scouts armed with airguns, or twenty Girl Guides armed with battledores, for that matter.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The racket used in this game."
],
"links": [
[
"racket",
"racket"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface:",
"text": "You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet."
],
"links": [
[
"hornbook",
"hornbook"
],
[
"alphabet",
"alphabet"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1563, John Foxe, chapter 21, in The Book of Martyrs:",
"text": "There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018 October 25, Matthew Taub, “Why England Once Forced Everyone to Be Buried in Wool”, in Atlas Obscura:",
"text": "The laundry process of the time [1665] consisted of boiling textiles with lye or soap and then beating them with a battledore, a rustic version of a cricket bat.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A wooden paddle-shaped bat or beetle used to wash clothes by beating, stirring, or smoothing them."
],
"links": [
[
"beetle",
"beetle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) A wooden paddle-shaped bat or beetle used to wash clothes by beating, stirring, or smoothing them."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "battledoor"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The racket used in this game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Federballschläger"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "midaqq",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مِدَقّ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "midaqqa",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "مِدَقَّة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mikbas",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مِكْبَس"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kuḏīn",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "كُذِين"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bayzar",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَيْزَر"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bayḏar",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَيْذَر"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bayzāra",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بَيْزَارَة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "wabīl",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "وَبِيل"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mikmada",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "مِكْمَدَة"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "lixiba-pala"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "golvazh"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pala de rentar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wasklopper"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "kurikas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "pyykkikarttu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "pesukarttu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "karttu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "battoir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bleuel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wäschebleuel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Waschbleuel"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kópanos",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κόπανος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mestola"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "şûnik"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tudes fullōnis"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"Neo-Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "tudes fullōnum"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "kultuvė"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bleil"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blëll"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "banketre"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kodin",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "کدین"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kodang",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "کدنگ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kijanka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "valjók",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "валёк"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pala de lavar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "moza"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "klappträ"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "klappbräda"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prányk",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "пра́ник"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prač",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"word": "прач"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "golchbren"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "Bat or beetle for washing clothes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "golchffon"
}
],
"word": "battledore"
}
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