Words Like BATTLEDORE

We have put together a list of words that are similar to BATTLEDORE.

3 Alternative Words Similar to battledore

1 Badminton Noun      Synonym
2 Racket Noun      Synonym Words Like Racket
3 Racquet Noun      Synonym Words Like Racquet

10 definitions of battledore

1 A bat or beetle used in washing clothes, or for smoothing them out while being laundered.
2 An instrument shaped like a racket, but smaller, used in playing the game of battledore and shuttlecock.
3 A paddle for a canoe.
4 In glass-making, a flat square piece of polished iron with a wooden handle, used for flattening the bottoms of tumblers, or for similar purposes.
5 A kind of paddle with a long handle, used for placing loaves in a baker's oven.
6 A kind of horn-book: so called from its shape.
7 A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
8 The racket used in this game.
9 A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
10 a light long-handled racket used by badminton players
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