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BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK
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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.