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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

... one of the pair beneath the poop—and he dropped his hold before the next wave; being stunned, I reckon. The others went out of sight at once, but the trumpeter—being, as I said, a powerful man as well as a tough swimmer—rose like a duck, rode out a couple of breakers, and came in on the crest of the third. The folks looked to see him broke like an egg at their feet; but when the smother cleared, there he was, lying face downward on a ledge below them; and one ...

— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... makes; and, the sound continuing longer than is generally imagined, the uninitiated are apt to imagine that the dangerous missile is travelling on an errand directly towards themselves. Space appears annihilated, and raw hands are often seen to duck at a round shot that is possibly flying a hundred ...

— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper

... strong, you know, and when you come to think of it there's some comfort in knowing that you'll never have to face the worst again. A man doesn't duck his head at the future when he's learned that, let be what will; it can't be so bad as the thing he's gone through with and yet come out on top. It gives him a pretty good feeling, after all, to know that he hasn't funked ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... bitter winter stimulus—I feel so light—as if my heart and mind were empty—only my body is quivering with life—the pure life of physical fitness. Why think, or feel, or look forward?" She doubled her pace until her feet seemed to be skimming the road. "I feel like a duck and drake," she laughed to herself. "Nothing matters, nothing, while there is still frost ...

— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco

... you see the truth is, that, this being the very hour for duck and wild-fowl shootin', it's hard to say where or when a fellow might start up, and mistake me for a wild duck, and your honor for a ...

— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

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