racket
/ˈɹækɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.
Countable
noun
A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
Canadian usage
noun
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
verb
To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
Example Sentences
- "He bought a new tennis racket two days ago."
- "Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall."
- "Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another."
- "Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket."
- "With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!"
- "What's all this racket?"
Etymology
From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”). Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: raket, رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد, raketsen, rachasser
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.