Duck
[dʌk]
Definition
(noun.) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs.
(noun.) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents.
(noun.) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild).
(noun.) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman.
(verb.) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; 'Before he could duck, another stone struck him'.
(verb.) submerge or plunge suddenly.
Typist: Natalie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A pet; a darling.
(n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
(n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
(v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
(v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
(v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
(v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
(v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
(v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
(v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
Typist: Manfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Immerse, plunge, souse, dip.
v. n. [1]. Dive, plunge, dip, immerse one's self.[2]. Bow, cringe.
Typed by Gordon
Definition
n. a kind of coarse cloth for small sails sacking &c.
n. name given to any member of the family Anatid the prominent marks of which are short webbed feet with a small hind-toe not reaching the ground the netted scales in front of the lower leg and the long bill: the female duck as distinguished from the male drake: in cricket (originally duck's egg) the zero (0) which records in a scoring-sheet that a player has made no runs: (coll.) a darling sweetheart: a financial defaulter—esp. Lame Duck: also of things.—ns. Duck′-ant a Jamaican termite nesting in trees; Duck′-bill an aquatic burrowing and egg-laying Australian mammal about 18 inches long with soft fur broadly webbed feet and depressed duck-like bill—also called Duck-mole Platypus and Ornithorhynchus.—adj. Duck′-billed having a bill like a duck.—n. Duck′-hawk the moor-buzzard or marsh-harrier: the peregrine falcon of the United States.—adj. Duck′-legged short-legged.—ns. Duck′ling a young duck; Duck's′-foot the lady's mantle; Duck′-weed a name for several species of Lemna and Wolffia growing in ditches; Bombay duck bummals; Wild′-duck the mallard.—Break one's duck (cricket) to make one's first run (see above); Make Play ducks and drakes to use recklessly: squander waste (with with of)—from the skipping of a flat stone across the surface of water.
v.t. to dip for a moment in water.—v.i. to dip or dive: to lower the head suddenly: to cringe yield.—n. a quick plunge dip: a quick lowering of the head or body a jerky bow.—ns. Duck′er one who ducks: a diving-bird; Duck′ing; Duck′ing-pond; Duck′ing-stool a stool or chair in which scolds were formerly tied and ducked in the water as a punishment.
Typed by Hannah
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing wild ducks on a clear stream of water, signifies fortunate journeys, perhaps across the sea. White ducks around a farm, indicate thrift and a fine harvest. To hunt ducks, denotes displacement in employment in the carrying out of plans. To see them shot, signifies that enemies are meddling with your private affairs. To see them flying, foretells a brighter future for you. It also denotes marriage, and children in the new home.
Typed by Alice
Examples
- One of these is an imitation of the duck's foot, which expands when it strikes the water, and collapses when it is withdrawn. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I am like John-a-Duck's mare, that will let no man mount her but John-a-Duck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Bernouilli, Genevois, and the Marquis de Jouffroy used paddles on the duck’s foot principle, which closed when dragged forward, and expanded when pushed to the rear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I'll have no lame duck's daughter in my family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If any true friend and well-wisher could make you a bankrupt, you would be a Duck; but as a man of property you are a Demon! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Bartlett, uses its bill like a duck by throwing the water out at the corners. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The canvasback duck is so called from the appearance of the feathers on the back. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He will have a very pretty income to make ducks and drakes with, and earned without much trouble. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Canvasback ducks are considered the finest of the water-fowls for the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This incubator will hatch chicks, ducks, turkeys, or guineas, and we see no reason why it should not hatch the egg of the ostrich or anything else as well. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Two or three months before this he had ocular proof of the effect of a hailstorm, which in a very limited area killed twenty deer, fifteen ostriches, numbers of ducks, hawks, and partridges. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The fornicator ducked back. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They ran for the culvert and ducked in. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Loerke, meanwhile, was crouching and glancing up from under his ducked head. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Robert Jordan waved him down and the gypsy ducked out of sight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the dark they walked over to the entrance of the cave, ducked under the blanket and went in. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Suddenly one of them snorted, ducked its head, and backed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then I ducked beneath his outstretched arms, at the same time sidestepping to the right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then he carried the slab and the ax back into the cave, ducking under the blanket as he came in, and leaned them both against the wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The man was too quick, and, ducking beneath it, himself delivered a mighty one, with clenched fist, in the pit of Kerchak's stomach. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His ducking sobered him a little, and he went to sleep, taking first out of his pocket a book which he desired I would dry for him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Lawyer Lightwood,' ducking at him with a servile air, 'I am a man as gets my living, and as seeks to get my living, by the sweat of my brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Anselmo went out, ducking under the hanging blanket. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then the guard put the key in the door, turned it, and pulled the door toward him, ducking behind it as the mob rushed in. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A ducking stool was a sort of a chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Charlene