"shittlecock" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "extra": "the game or the object",
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          "ref": "1621, Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women:",
          "text": "What's the next business after shittlecock, now?",
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          "ref": "1751, John Marchant, Puerilia: or, Amusements for the young, consisting of a collection of songs, page 54:",
          "text": "Shittlecock toss'd to and fro, Diverts us, and warms the chill Blood […]",
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          "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.",
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        "Obsolete spelling of shuttlecock (“the game or the object”)."
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          "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.",
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