Shuttlecock: alternatives and connections

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the act…

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

"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."

To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house"

cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house"

To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); a…

To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspecte…

To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers

Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.

To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.

To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtsh…

To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.