Definition of duck

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Duck (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

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Spine-tailed :: Spinetail (n.) The ruddy duck.
Ringneck :: Ringneck (n.) The ring-necked duck.
Willet :: Willet (n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew..
Woolhead :: Woolhead (n.) The buffel duck.
Sea Widgeon :: Sea widgeon () The scaup duck.
Bluebill :: Bluebill (n.) A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.
Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..
Sailcloth :: Sailcloth (n.) Duck or canvas used in making sails.
Splitter :: Split-tail (n.) The pintail duck.
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy..
Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
Drabbet :: Drabbet (n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck..
Anatine :: Anatine (a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.
Anseres :: Anseres (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc..
Coot :: Coot (n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
Duck-legged :: Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged..
Merganser :: Merganser (n.) Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill..
Anatiferous :: Anatiferous (a.) Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle..
Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
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