Word Meanings - BATTLEDOOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

• Covert baron
  Under the protection of a husband; married.
• CROSSVAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• Crossbite
  A deception; a cheat.
• Cross-examiner
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• Crossopterygii
  An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
• Cross-stitch
  A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.
• Instrumental
  Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business.
• COVERSEDSINE
  The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• CROSSEYED
  Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
• Covertly
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• CROSSWEEK
  Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
• Crossbones
  A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
• Cross-eye
  See Strabismus.
• Crosspatch
  An ill-natured person.
• Cross-stone
  See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
• Instrumentalist
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• COVERSHAME
  Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.
• Battledoor
  An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.
• CROSSFERTILIZE
  To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.

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