A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. Orson Welles
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine
That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. George Foreman
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken. P. J. O'Rourke
duck in Afrikaans is eend
duck in Danish is and
duck in Dutch is eend
duck in Finnish is sorsa
duck in French is cane, canard
duck in German is Ente
duck in Norwegian is and, dukke
duck in Portuguese is pato
duck in Spanish is pato
duck in Swedish is and, ducka, anka
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