canvasback
- n North American wild duck valued for sport and food
- In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till at length in the dusk one evening a young canvasback snatched a piece of bread from my fingers.
- My old duck canvasback often utters a small sound that makes her presence known, but the drake is silent except in the breeding season.
- As a matter of fact -Miss Mulch has never seen a canvasback duck except during the game course as her current cloak-and-suit man nourishes her at the Ritz.