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A sieve on a stick that somehow redirects a ball faster than it arrived.
means A strung frame used to hit a ball or shuttlecock in games like tennis, squash, and badminton.
from Traces back through French 'raquette' to Arabic 'rāḥat' (meaning palm of the hand) — because before anyone strung a frame with gut, players simply smacked the ball with an open palm. The unrelated-sounding sense of 'racket' meaning noise or a scam split off separately in English, likely from the din of early street games or possibly imitative of a clattering sound — so the hand-game and the hubbub are, despite appearances, not kin.
- string tension
- Pros string tighter than most hammocks can handle
- original material
- Sheep or cow gut, not actual cat anatomy
- spelling split
- Racquet is fancy tennis, racket is everything else
- sweet spot
- Smaller than a credit card on most frames