Ducking
['dʌkɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Duck
(-) n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Plunge, dive, dip.[2]. [Colloquial.] Wetting, drenching, soaking.
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Examples
- 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.
- What were Ducking Stools? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was like welshers bolting from a racecourse to escape a ducking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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