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▪ I. battledore, n.|ˈbæt(ə)ldɔə(r)|
Forms: 5 batyldoure, -dore, batylledore, (batyndore, badildore), batildure, 6 -dore, batil(l)dore, batteldore, 7 battledoore, 6–9 battledoor, 6– battledore.
[Perh. ad. Pr. batedor ‘beater’; cf. Sp. batidor applied to instruments as well as to persons, f. batir to beat; Minsheu gives a Sp. batador, with the meaning of a beetle used in washing. But historical connexion with these Romanic words is not proved, and the date offers difficulties. If we refer the first part to battle v.4, or to bat, the -dore remains without satisfactory explanation.]
1. A beetle or wooden ‘bat’ used in washing, also (when made cylindrical) for smoothing out or ‘mangling’ linen clothes; hence also applied to similarly shaped instruments, e.g. the paddle of a canoe, a utensil for inserting loaves into an oven, or glass-ware into the kiln, etc.
c1440Promp. Parv. 27 Batyldoure, or wasshynge betylle, feretorium. c1450in Wülcker Voc. /582 Feritorium, batyndore. Ibid. /601 Pecten, batyndore. 1483Cath. Angl. 17 Badildore, batildure, pecten. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 276 [She] all to beat her yokemate with a wash⁓beetle or battledore. 1617F. Morison Itin. i. 11 Boats of a hollow tree, driuen..by battledores. 1655Queen's Clos. Open. 222 (D.) Rowl them [the gumbals] with battledores into long pieces, and tie them up in knots, and so dry them. 1822J. Platts Bk. Curios. 579 A Laundress..turning the clothes up and down with her hand and battledore. 1883Knowledge 22 June 371/2 The loaves are inserted..by means of a flat battledore with a long handle, called a ‘peel.’
2. An instrument like a small racket used in playing with a shuttlecock.
1598Florio, Poletta, a scoope or batledore to play at tenis with. 1690Locke Educ. Wks. 1812 IX. 126 Play⁓things..as tops, gigs, battledores. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 274/2 The shuttlecocks fluttered from the little deal battledores.
b. The game played with this by two persons who strike the shuttlecock to and from each other.
1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 303 Have you seen Battledore play, Where the Shuttlecock flys to and fro one? 1782Cowper Let. to Hill 7 Dec., I..have been playing at battledore and shuttle-cock. 1794Scott in Lockhart (1839) I. 311, I hope they are improved at the battledore.
fig.1879Lowell Orient. Apol. Poet. Wks. 363 So they two played at wordy battledore.
†3. (more fully battledore-book): A horn-book; so called from its usual shape. Hence battledore boy, an abecedarian. Obs. or dial.
1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 215 A battledore book, or Horn-book: Abecedarium. Ibid. A Battledore boy or Horn-book-boy. 1697G. Keith 2nd Narr. Turner's Hall 9 G. H. Has Printed..a Battle-dore to teach them to speak true English. 1877E. Peacock Manley (Linc.) Gloss., Battledoor, a piece of cardboard on which was printed the A.B.C., the Lord's prayer, and a few short syllables, employed as a substitute for the horn-book. They were in use here, in dames' schools, thirty years ago. ‘He doesn't knaw his A.B.C. fra a battledoor’ perhaps refers to this. 1884I. Banks In his own Hand xx, Behold the lad with battledore or book before him.
4. battledore barley: a species of cultivated barley (Hordeum zeocriton) with short broad ears, also called Sprat barley.
1848Milburn in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 506 The variety of barley usually sown is Chevalier..the ‘battledore,’ an old variety, is nearly extinct.
5. Phrases. not to know a B from a battledore (arch.): to be utterly illiterate; to say B (or Bo!) to a battledore (obs.): to open one's mouth in speech (cf. to say Bo! to a goose); hence, battledore is alliteratively used along with B in various locutions.
1553–87Foxe A. & M. II. 474 He knew not a B from a battledore nor ever a letter of the book. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse 30 b, Now you talke of a Bee, Ile tell you a tale of a Battle-dore. 1599― Lent. Stuffe Wks. 1885 V. 197 Euery man can say Bee to a Battledore, and write in prayse of Vertue. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 118 The Clergy of this time were..not able to say bo to a battledore. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 43/1 Criticks..That of a B. will make a Battledore. 1877[see 3]. 1884Black Jud. Shaks. xxi, Fools that scarce know a B from a battledoor.
▪ II. ˈbattledore, v.
[f. prec. n. (in sense 2).]
To drive, toss or fly to and fro.
1858Bushnell Serm. New Life 181 Battle-dooring always in opinions and dogmas. 1864Daily Tel. 9 Apr., Honest men were not to be battledored and shuttlecocked thus between names and names. |