Hypertext Webster Gateway: "racket"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Racket \Rack"et\, n.
A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place
considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also,
such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a
racket; to stand upon the racket. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Racket \Rack"et\, v. t.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
--Hewyt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Racket \Rack"et\, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.]
1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Racket \Rack"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Racketing}.]
1. To make a confused noise or racket.
2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. --Sterne.
3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
racket
n 1: a loud and disturbing noise
2: an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug
peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit [syn: {fraudulent
scheme}, {illegitimate enterprise}]
3: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern
music is just noise to me" [syn: {noise}, {dissonance}]
4: a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an
oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings)
used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
[syn: {racquet}]
v 1: celebrate noisily; engage in uproarious festivities; "The
members of the wedding party made merry all night";
"Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: {revel}, {make
whoopie}, {make merry}, {make happy}, {whoop it up}, {wassail}]
2: make a racket
3: hit with a racket, of a ball
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