shuttlecock

Meanings

1. A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
2. The game of badminton.

1. To move rapidly back and forth.
2. To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.

Etymology

From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).