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Encyclopedia Britannica



BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 534 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK , a
game
  played by two persons with small rackets, called battledores, made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a
base
  of some light material, like
cork
 , with trimmed feathers fixed
round
  the top. The
object
  of the players is to bat the shuttlecock from one to the other as many times as possible without allowing it to fall to the ground. There are
Greek
  drawings extant representing a
game
  almost identical with battledore and shuttlecock, and it has Been popular in
China
 , Japan,
India
  and Siam for at least 2000 years. In Europe it has been'played by children for centuries. A further development is Badminton.


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