shuttle-cock
SHUTTLE-COCK
*pila pennata. To play at battle-door etc. *pila pennata ludere or se exercere: to strike the shuttle-cock pilam (pennatam) reticulo fundere (Ov. A.A. 3 6).
*pila pennata. To play at battle-door etc. *pila pennata ludere or se exercere: to strike the shuttle-cock pilam (pennatam) reticulo fundere (Ov. A.A. 3 6).
shuttle-cock: Kr. gives *pĭla pennāta, but without authority: to play at battledore and s., perh. pila pennata ludere: p. pennatam reticulis inter se excipere (of more than one player). Fig.: as, the s. of Fortune: perh. lūdibrium: cf. Virg. Aen. 6, 75 (rapidis ludibria ventis): also, Hor. Od. 1, 14, 15.