duck
duhk
- n small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- n (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
- n flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- n a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- v to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
Before he could duck, another stone struck him - v submerge or plunge suddenly
- v dip into a liquid
- v avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- Soldiers who like duck eggs had better restrain their appetites when they invade Europe or the Dutch East Indies.
- Wild duck always return to the scene of their birthso good Japanese believe.
- Before dawn one day last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and .