racquet

noun

1. (Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of racket (“implement with a handle connected to a round frame”).

   “After yet another mid-court volley error, Serena got so upset that she smashed her racquet deep into the clay court. The racquet was unusable after that, and when she went to her bag to grab another, she found that all her other racquets had broken strings.”

verb

1. To hit with a racquet.

   “You two might indeed have racqueted the ball betwixt you, as you say.”

   “Potter drove up along the wire fence of the yard, and there on the tennis court, a kid racqueted a ball against a brick wall behind the courts.”

   “One of the tennis center's satellite courts was lit to near daylight brightness by white floodlights; as I approached I could hear the steady, dry pock . . . pock of a tennis ball being racqueted back and forth.”

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.”

   “...played no games as a boy, but since he did me that good turn I have racqueted about happily.”

   “I arrived to find a tennis foursome - architect & his wife, you & my mother, racquetting through a country english afternoon just as it's been bonged since Shakespeare penned his pages.”

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.”

   “Fancy his disgust when (having given up all hopes of watching the full moon, he had just fallen asleep) he was awakened by the noise of that rat once more racqueting about all over the room.”

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.”

   “More astounding still is the volume of trading, as a manic afternoon sees Netscape shares change hands 13.88 million times; an average of almost two and a half times each, with some racqueted back and forth like tennis balls . . . a curious pattern which will become familiar to dotcom stock-watchers.”