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Tale, 1. 804. In the "Two Maids of Moreclacke," a comedy printed in 1609, it is said, "To play at shuttle - cock methinkes is the game now." Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 401. 2. A malvaceous shrub, Peripter a punicea of Mexico, the only species of a still dubious genus. It has crimson flowers and a many-celled many-cel radiate capsule, one or other suggesting the name.- Battledore and shuttlecock, a game played with a shuttlecock and battledores by two players or sides. The shuttlecock is knocked back and forth from one player or side to the other, until one fails to return it. shuttlecock (shut'l-kok), v. t . [ shuttlecock , n.] To throw or bandy backward and forward like a shuttlecock. "Dishonour to me! sir," exclaims the General. "Yes, if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!" I answered hotly. Thackeray , Virgin i ans, lxxvii, On the other hand, that education should be shuttle cocked by party warriors is the worst evil that we have to endure. The Academy , April 6, 1889, p. 235. shuttlecorkt (shut'l-kôrk), n. Same as shuttle cock. Also shittlecork . How they have shuffled up the rushes too, Davy, With their short figging little shittlecork heels!