rackets

Definitions


[ˈrakɪts], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a ball game for two or four people played with rackets in a plain four-walled court, distinguished from squash in particular by the use of a solid, harder ball


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Origin:
late Middle English (also in the singular): probably from French raquette, apparently a variant of rachette ‘palm of the hand, carpus’, from medieval Latin rasceta, based on Arabic rāḥa ‘palm of the hand’




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