racket DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a snowshoe.
See also: Indian racket raquette snowshoe ((n.)) racquet ((n.))
- Though racket is an English form and has existed for some three centuries side by side with the French form, it is now virtually obsolete in this sense. Like racquet, its use in modern times seems to have been confined to Labrador.