Definition of "battledores" []

• Plural form of battledore. (noun)

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• "As improvements or variations of the horn book, cardboard sheets and wooden squares, known as battledores, appeared after 1770."
• "These were called battledores, but as Mr. Tuer has dealt with this class in "The Horn Book" so thoroughly, it would be mere waste of time to discuss them here."
• "Jackies on the outside of the partition with tops, balls, bats, and battledores, as a member of the long-robed fraternity within, who impose on grown country gentlemen with bouncing brocards of law."