Bible Dictionaries
Battledoor

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

(2):

(n.) A child's hornbook.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Battledoor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/battledoor.html. 1828.