duck

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To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

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To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1989|author=Grant Naylor|title=Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
(RQ:Fielding Joseph Andrews)
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
(RQ:Dryden Juvenal Satires)In ''Tiber'' ducking thrice, by break of day(..)
To bow.
(RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens)
To evade doing something.
(quote-journal)
To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
(quote-book)
To enter a place for a short moment.
A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
An aquatic bird of the family (taxfmt), having a flat bill and webbed feet.
''Specifically'', an adult female duck; ''contrasted with'' drake ''and with'' duckling.
The flesh of a duck used as food.
A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
A card with the rank of two.
A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.

''A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.''

{{quote-journal|en|date=21 Feb 2007|author=Cynthia Blair|title=It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck|journal=Newsday
A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
A cairn used to mark a trail.
One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
(synonym of)
A long-necked medical urinal for men; a urinal.
A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
(syn of).
(senseid) A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
{{quote-text|en|year=1912|author=Katherine Mansfield|chapter=The Woman At The Store|title=Selected Short Stories
Trousers made of such material.
(RQ:West Return of the Soldier)
{{quote-book|en|year=1954|author=Doris Lessing|title=A Proper Marriage|publisher=HarperPerennial|year_published=1995|page=74
(n-g); pet; darling.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)and hold-faſt is the onely Dogge: My Ducke(..)
Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

''Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?''