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

Drabbet :: Drabbet (n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy..

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

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

Geoduck :: Geoduck (n.) A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food..

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..

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..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..

Sea Pheasant :: Sea pheasant () The pintail duck.

Dunbird :: Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.

Doucker :: Doucker (v. t.) A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks..

Coot :: Coot (n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.

Shovel-nosed :: Shovel-nosed (a.) Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler..

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

Team :: Team (n.) A flock of wild ducks.

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

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..

Sailcloth :: Sailcloth (n.) Duck or canvas used in making sails.

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