Duck

(noun.) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs.

(noun.) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents.

(noun.) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild).

(noun.) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman.

(verb.) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; 'Before he could duck, another stone struck him'.

(verb.) submerge or plunge suddenly.

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• One of these is an imitation of the duck's foot, which expands when it strikes the water, and collapses when it is withdrawn. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I am like John-a-Duck's mare, that will let no man mount her but John-a-Duck. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Bernouilli, Genevois, and the Marquis de Jouffroy used paddles on the duck’s foot principle, which closed when dragged forward, and expanded when pushed to the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I'll have no lame duck's daughter in my family. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If any true friend and well-wisher could make you a bankrupt, you would be a Duck; but as a man of property you are a Demon! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Bartlett, uses its bill like a duck by throwing the water out at the corners. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The canvasback duck is so called from the appearance of the feathers on the back. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He will have a very pretty income to make ducks and drakes with, and earned without much trouble. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Canvasback ducks are considered the finest of the water-fowls for the table. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This incubator will hatch chicks, ducks, turkeys, or guineas, and we see no reason why it should not hatch the egg of the ostrich or anything else as well. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Two or three months before this he had ocular proof of the effect of a hailstorm, which in a very limited area killed twenty deer, fifteen ostriches, numbers of ducks, hawks, and partridges. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The fornicator ducked back. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• They ran for the culvert and ducked in. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Loerke, meanwhile, was crouching and glancing up from under his ducked head. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Robert Jordan waved him down and the gypsy ducked out of sight. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In the dark they walked over to the entrance of the cave, ducked under the blanket and went in. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Suddenly one of them snorted, ducked its head, and backed. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then I ducked beneath his outstretched arms, at the same time sidestepping to the right. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Then he carried the slab and the ax back into the cave, ducking under the blanket as he came in, and leaned them both against the wall. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The man was too quick, and, ducking beneath it, himself delivered a mighty one, with clenched fist, in the pit of Kerchak's stomach. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• His ducking sobered him a little, and he went to sleep, taking first out of his pocket a book which he desired I would dry for him. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Lawyer Lightwood,' ducking at him with a servile air, 'I am a man as gets my living, and as seeks to get my living, by the sweat of my brow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Anselmo went out, ducking under the hanging blanket. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Then the guard put the key in the door, turned it, and pulled the door toward him, ducking behind it as the mob rushed in. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• A ducking stool was a sort of a chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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