The word ‘shuttlecock’ is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a small, lightweight object with a rounded base and pointed cone-shaped top, used in the game of badminton. Example: She served the shuttlecock over the net with precision, earning herself a point in the game.
In a feathered re-entry, the wings are folded to provide a "shuttlecock" effect that gives the ship high drag.
As long as the presidency remains the shuttlecock of different scions of the north-eastern aristocracy, Americans may have a hard time thinking of any party as the champions of the poor.
Perhaps the coaches in Seoul did not spend enough time training them to bury the shuttlecock in the heart of the net.This spectacle proved too much for the Badminton World Federation BWFF).
Over puppet shows and shuttlecock games she picked up the language, she claimed, in just three-and-a-half months.
It would be launched from a jet-powered mother ship, fly to the edge of space using a rocket never before used for manned flight, transform into a "shuttlecock" configuration for re-entry and then turn back into a glider to land on a normal runway.
And in Congress he has been batted around like a shuttlecock.
The tales of her shuttlecock, education-free childhood, her bizarre, tragic mother, and the entanglements of herself and her friends make for riveting reading; the delight is in the detail.
After the rocket finished its burn and before SS1 reached its highest point, the pilot would extend the feather; that is, the rear half of the wings of SS1 would fold vertically to a "shuttlecock" position, increasing drag to reduce speed and thermal load for reentry.
Battledore and shuttlecock, children's game played by two persons using small rackets called battledores, which are made of parchment, plastic, or rows of gut or nylon stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed around the top.
The roots of the sport can be traced to ancient Greece, China, and India, and it is closely related to the old children's game battledore and shuttlecock.
In Southeast Asia rows of unmarried boys and girls play catch with a cloth ball, while in China there is the beating back and forth of a feather shuttlecock.
