资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Racket \Rack"et\, n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raquets, It.
   racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a
   net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar.
   r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the
   ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.] [Written
   also {racquet}.]
   1. A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together,
      forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network
      of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a
      handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in
      tennis and similar games.

            Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a
            crosier, and ending in a racket.      --Bancroft.

   2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar
      long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. --Chaucer.

   3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and
      narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]

   4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man horse, to enable
      him to step on marshy or soft ground.

   {Racket court}, a court for playing the game of rackets.