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racqueted

racqueted is the simple past and past participle of racquet.

Meaning of racquet

Verb

racquet (third-person singular simple present racquets, present participle racqueting, simple past and past participle racqueted)

  1. To hit with a racquet.
    • You two might indeed have racqueted the ball betwixt you, as you say.1820, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
  2. To play a game that involves using a racquet.
    • When he isn't racqueting, Brad claims he puts in the time with Alfred Dunhill of London.1948, Princeton Alumni Weekly - Volume 49, page 91
  3. To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet.
    • Flashlights in hand, they made their way down the slope and racqueted out upon the lake.1938, William Byron Mowery, Guns in the Valley, page 96
  4. To exchange back and forth, similar to the way a tennis ball volleys back and forth.
    • Many of his choicest years of life were employ'd in wrangling, and receiving and racquetting back reproach, accusation and sarcasm.2011, Robert Graves, Wife to Mr Milton, →ISBN

Adjective

racqueted (not comparable)

  1. Having a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section.
    • Sometimes one finds oneself in the domain of the Motmots, which look at you from their thickets, swinging their curious racqueted tails from right to left after the manner of a clock's pendulum, and uttering bubbling notes...1922, The Avicultural Magazine, page 163
    • All 3 African birds in this group have long outer tail feathers, racqueted in C. spatulata.2010, Bruce Campbell, Elizabeth Lack, A Dictionary of Birds, →ISBN, page 516

Questions about racqueted

What does racqueted mean?
Racqueted means having a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section.
What is racqueted the simple past and past participle of?
Racqueted is the simple past and past participle of racquet.
What part of speech is racqueted?
Racqueted is an adjective.

Words near racqueted in the dictionary

  1. racquet-tails
  2. racquetball
  3. racquetballer
  4. racquetballers
  5. racquetballs
  6. racqueted
  7. racqueting
  8. racquetless
  9. racquetlike
  10. racquets
  11. RACs

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