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Duck

noun

1.

Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs.

2.

(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman. Synonym: duck's egg.

3.

Flesh of a duck (domestic or wild).

4.

A heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents.

verb

(past & past part. ducked; pres. part. ducking)

1.

To move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away.

2.

Submerge or plunge suddenly.

3.

Dip into a liquid. Synonyms: dip, douse.

4.

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt. "She skirted the problem" , "They tend to evade their responsibilities" , "He evaded the questions skillfully"

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"Duck" Quotes from Famous Books

... Soup alla Canavese Naselli con piselli. Whiting with peas. Coscia di manzo al forno. Braized ribs of beef. Lingua alla Visconti. Tongue with grapes. Anitra selvatica. Wild duck. Zabajone ghiacciato. Iced syllabub. Crostatini alla capucina. ...

— The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: - Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes • Mrs. W. G. Waters

... about, you coward?" growled Bud. "He won't shoot you; but he'll beat you at this game, I'll bet a hoss, and me, too, and make us both as 'shamed of ourselves as dogs with tin-kittles to their tails. You don't know the master, though he did duck you. But he'll larn you a good lesson this time, and me too, like as not." And Bud soon snored again, but Hank shook with fear every time he looked at the blackness outside the windows. He was sure he heard foot-falls. He would have ...

— The Hoosier Schoolmaster - A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana • Edward Eggleston

... thought that I appreciated it! You will find no fault with me on that score now. The lake is beautiful enough, but I begin to hate the sight of it, especially when a Yankee insists on my telling him whether we have in all Europe anything better than a duck-pond in comparison. Little Lida is my drop of comfort, since she has ceased to be mortally afraid of 'Brother.' Love to ...

— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Battleford and Prince Albert must shortly capitulate to them, and then the squaws would receive the white women of those places as their private prisoners to do with as their sweet wills suggested. Already many of the accursed whites had been slaughtered, as at Duck Lake, for instance, but many more had yet to die. They must be utterly exterminated, so that the elect might possess ...

— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie

... if I follow this beginning. Well my dear Brother, if I scape this drowning, 'tis your turn next to sink, you shall duck twice before I help you. Sir I cannot drink more; pray let me ...

— The Scornful Lady • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

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