battledores

As improvements or variations of the horn book, cardboard sheets and wooden squares, known as battledores, appeared after 1770.

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

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.

Children's Books and Their Illustrators Gleeson White 1874

Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers.

Les Miserables 2008

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.

Redgauntlet 2008

There was no harm in him — he had a great aversion to shedding blood: which was something — but, he was a weak, silly, helpless young man, and a mere shuttlecock to the great lordly battledores about the Court.

A Child's History of England 2007

Of these battledores, Cardinal Beaufort, a relation of the King, and the Duke of Gloucester, were at first the most powerful.

A Child's History of England 2007

The Billickin gracefully withdrew with this parting speech, and from that time Rosa occupied the restless position of shuttlecock between these two battledores.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

Materialism and spiritualism are a fine pair of battledores with which charlatans in long gowns keep a shuttlecock a-going.

The Magic Skin 2007

The royal shuttlecock being three-and-twenty, the battledores were very anxious to get him married.

A Child's History of England 2007

England, among so many battledores and such a poor shuttlecock; and the

A Child's History of England 2007