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Definition of Rackets
1. racket [v] - See also: racket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rackets
Literary usage of Rackets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF rackets THE game of rackets I has not the same brilliant
record as her elder and bulkier sister Tennis. A flirtation with the former ..."
2. The Annals of Tennis by Julian Marshall (1878)
"Some of Birt's appear to be simply French rackets, with his name stamped upon
the name of the French maker, and so obliterating it. ..."
3. Labrador: A Sketch of Its Peoples, Its Industries and Its Natural History by Winfrid Alden Stearns (1884)
"... to summer quarters — Anticipating Fourth of July — Summer quarters in winter —
Capsized — Fox hunt on rackets — A mile of soft snow without rackets. ..."
4. Labrador: A Sketch of Its Peoples, Its Industries and Its Natural History by Winfrid Alden Stearns (1884)
"... berries in spring — Carrying wood to summer quarters — Anticipating Fourth of
July — Summer quarters in winter — Capsized — Fox hunt on rackets — A mile ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"rackets ' is played in a court 96 or 97 feet long, by 33 or 34 feet wide, and
surrounded by walls sufficiently high to prevent the balls from being lost The ..."
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