Racket
the instrument with which players at tennis or rackets strike the ball; a bat, consisting of an elliptical loop formed of a thin strip of wood, across which network of cord or gut is stretched, and to which a handle is attached. Also snow-shoe of cords a stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood; and a broad shoe or pattern made of wood, used on a man or a horse to support him on the surface of boggy ground. In ornithology, a spatule.