raquette

racquet / racket (for tennis, badminton, etc.); ellipsis of raquette à neige (“snowshoe”); an ellipsoid flight feather barbed distally from the rachis; prickly pear (cactus) (Opuntia); cactus (generally)

Inherited from Middle French rachette, requette, possibly from Arabic رَاحَةْ اليَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm”), or a variant of rachasser (“chase back, hit back”).