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Webster 1913 Edition
Racket
Rack′et
(răk′ĕt)
, Noun.
[F.
raquette
; cf. Sp. raqueta
, It. racchetta
, which is perhaps for retichetta
, and fr. L. rete
a net (cf. Reticule
); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. rāha
the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette
, rasquette
, carpus, tarsus.] [Written also
racquet
.] 1.
A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a
racket
. Bancroft.
2.
A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; – chiefly in the plural.
Chaucer.
3.
A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
[Canada]
4.
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
Racket court
, a court for playing the game of rackets.
Rack′et
,Verb.
T.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
Poor man [is]
racketed
from one temptation to another. Hewyt.
Rack′et
,Noun.
[Gael.
racaid
a noise, disturbance.] 1.
confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
2.
A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
[Slang]
Rack′et
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Racketed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Racketing
.] 1.
To make a confused noise or racket.
2.
To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
Sterne.
3.
To carouse or engage in dissipation.
[Slang]
Webster 1828 Edition
Racket
RACK'ET
,Noun.
1.
A confused, clattering noise, less loud than uproar; applied to the confused sounds of animal voices, or such voices mixed with other sound. We say, the children make a racket; the racket of a flock of fowls.2.
Clamor; noisy talk.RACK'ET
,Verb.
I.
RACK'ET
, n.The instrument with which players at tennis strike the ball.
RACK'ET
,Verb.
T.