BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK  , a See also:

• GAME

game played by two persons with small rackets, called battledores, made of See also:

• PARCHMENT

parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a See also:

• BASE

base of some See also:

• LIGHT

light material, like See also:

• CORK
• CORK (perhaps through Sp. corcha from Lat. cortex, bark, but possibly connected with quercus, oak)
• CORK, RICHARD BOYLE

cork, with trimmed feathers fixed See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top . The See also:

• OBJECT

object of the players is to See also:

• BAT

bat the shuttlecock from one to the other as many times as possible without allowing it to fall to the ground . There are See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek drawings extant representing a game almost identical with battledore and shuttlecock, and it has Been popular in See also:

• CHINA

China, See also:

• JAPAN

Japan, See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and See also:

• SIAM (known to its inhabitants as Muang Thai)

Siam for at least 2000 years . In See also:

• EUROPE

Europe it has been'played by See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children for centuries . A further development is See also:

• BADMINTON, or GREAT BADMINTON

Badminton .