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

Raven''s-duck :: Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth.

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

Duck :: Duck (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

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

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..

Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S

Bummalo :: Bummalo (n.) A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

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..

Spoonbill :: Spoonbill (n.) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.

Troopfowl :: Troopfowl (n.) The American scaup duck.

Smew :: Smew (n.) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun..

Mullingong :: Mullingong (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck..

Squame :: Squamduck () The American eider duck.

Fowl :: Fowl (n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus)..

Blackhead :: Blackhead (n.) The scaup duck.

Dive :: Dive (v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.

Redhead :: Redhead (n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard..

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