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Cucking Stool :: Cucking stool () A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool..

Dipper :: Dipper (n.) The buffel duck.

Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

Teal :: Teal (n.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings..

Sheldrake :: Sheldrake (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows..

Shoveler :: Shoveler (n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species..

Sea Widgeon :: Sea widgeon () The scaup duck.

Marionette :: Marionette (n.) The buffel duck.

Poultry :: Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese..

Ducking :: Ducking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Duc.

Steeliness :: Steelhead (n.) The ruddy duck.

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk..

Querquedule :: Querquedule (n.) The pintail duck.

Douse :: Douse (v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

Decoy :: Decoy (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net..

Stiff-tailed :: Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck.

Duck-legged :: Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged..

Duck's-meat :: Duck's-meat (n.) Duckweed.

Beduck :: Beduck (v. t.) To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.

Skunktop :: Skunktop (n.) The surf duck.

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