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Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
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It seems to me, that every dictionary I've looked in, and all the top hits on Google, say that a shuttlecock is a name for the 'birdie' of badminton. This comes from the original game, shuttlecock and battledore, where the shuttlecock was the object hit back and forth and the battledore was the paddle used to hit it with.
"Shuttlecock" is a film for which things went very wrong. So wrong, in fact, that it makes a kind of negative case study for anyone thinking of investing in or producing an independent film. Its troubled history is a whole-earth catalogue of bad decisions, strategic miscalculations, painful rejections, misunderstandings and lots of old ...
The novel was greeted with highly favourable reviews on its appearance, selections from which were quoted on the covers of later editions. [2] In commenting on this in an early survey of Swift's fiction, Del Ivan Janik observed of the narrator’s strategy for dealing with the past - an abiding theme in his work - that it consists in this case of a humanising acceptance of uncertainty.
Feather shuttlecocks Plastic shuttlecock. A shuttlecock (also called a birdie or shuttle) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape formed by feathers or plastic (or a synthetic alternative) embedded into a rounded cork (or rubber) base. The shuttlecock's shape makes it extremely aerodynamically ...
The Singing Dogs was a Danish musical recording project in the 1950s by recording engineer and ornithologist Carl Weismann and record producer Don Charles based around manipulated recordings of dogs barking. Carl Weismann, while recording the sounds of birds for other projects, ended up with many recordings that were spoiled by dogs barking.