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.
A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. Chaucer.
A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]
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.
To strike with, or as with, a racket. Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another. Hewyt.
confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]
To make a confused noise or racket.
To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Sterne.
To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]
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