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bat·tle·door
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Battledoornoun
An instrument with a handle and a flat blade, used in play to strike a ball, or shuttlecock.
Etymology: so called from door, taken for a flat board, and battle, or striking.
Play-things, which are above their skill, as tops, gigs, battle-doors, and the like, which are to be used with labour, should indeed be procured them. John Locke.
Webster Dictionary
Battledoornoun
an instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock
Battledoornoun
a child's hornbook
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Battledoor
Battledore, bat′l-dōr, n. a light bat for striking a ball or shuttlecock.—Not to know a B from a battledoor, to be thoroughly ignorant. [Sp. batidor, a beater, a washing-beetle; but this is doubtful.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Battledoor in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Battledoor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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