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  • Thumbnail for Battledore and shuttlecock
    Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is an early sport related to modern badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets...
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    players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock (Jian) from touching the ground Battledore and shuttlecock – an ancient game similar to that of modern...
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    developed in British India from the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. European play came to be dominated by Denmark but the game has become very...
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    celebrities on them. At the beginning of the game's development, soapberry nuts were often used as shuttlecocks. Battledore and shuttlecock Look up hanetsuki...
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  • croquet and in 1860 printed a pamphlet called 'Badminton Battledore' a description of the ancient game of battledores and shuttlecocks as played competitively...
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    John Horne Tooke (category People educated at Westminster School, London)
    delineates the two politicians, Temple and Camelford, playing at battledore and shuttlecock, with Horne Tooke as the shuttlecock. The ministry of Addington would...
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    fire), fire can spinning Keepie Uppie, and various related forms: Balloon (game) Basse Battledore and shuttlecock (or jeu de volant) Beach ball Bossaball...
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    St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club (category Golf clubs and courses in Fife)
    young women could participate in, apart from croquet, battledore and shuttlecock, and archery. At that time, the caddies of St Andrews laid out a small...
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  • badminton Frontenis Battledore and shuttlecock Crossminton (previously "Speedminton") Qianball Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports) Rackets...
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    Battledore & Shuttlecock Derry down Derry Dumps", which he based on Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos. After a long decline in his health, Lear died at his...
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    Sport in India (category Articles to be expanded from March 2023)
    game known as battledore and shuttlecock, a game that was most prominent in ancient India. The battledore was a paddle and the shuttlecock was a small feathered...
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    Pune (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    of battledore and shuttlecock. "Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".)[undue weight? – discuss] Women's tennis ITF $25K tournament held at Deccan...
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    officials, but it is my nature, and I cannot help it. I fear I have not even tried to play battledore and shuttlecock with them. I know if I was chief...
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    Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 12, 133–150. (1925 July) Japanese Game of Battledore and Shuttlecock. Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 12, 133–150. Culin, Stewart; University...
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  • 93–94. OCLC 49359319. Cromartie, Bill (1996). "1892 – 'Croquet or Battledore or Shuttlecock?'". Army Navy Football, 1890–1995: The Greatest Rivalry in All...
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    horsing around 'having a capital time with my chicks' (as when playing battledore and shuttlecocks down the length of the dining room with his seven-year-old...
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