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Puck and Duck Definitions

Puck

A mischievous sprite in English folklore.

Duck

Any of various wild or domesticated waterbirds of the family Anatidae, characteristically having a broad flat bill, short legs, and webbed feet.

Puck

A hard rubber disk used in ice hockey.

Duck

A female duck.

Puck

A mischievous or hostile spirit.

Duck

The flesh of a duck used as food.
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Puck

(ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.

Duck

(Slang) A person, especially one thought of as peculiar.

Puck

An object shaped like a puck.

Duck

Often ducks (used with a sing. verb) Chiefly British A dear.

Puck

(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.

Duck

A quick lowering of the head or body.
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Puck

A penalty shot.

Duck

A plunge under water.

Puck

Billy goat

Duck

A durable, closely woven heavy cotton or linen fabric.

Puck

A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.

Duck

Ducks Clothing made of duck, especially white pants.
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Puck

To hit, strike.

Duck

An amphibious military truck used during World War II.

Puck

A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" - called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.
He meeteth Puck, whom most men callHobgoblin, and on him doth fall.

Duck

A similar vehicle used for civilian purposes, as to evacuate flood victims or for sightseeing tours. In both senses also called DUKW.

Puck

The goatsucker.

Duck

To lower quickly, especially so as to avoid something
Ducked his head as the ball came toward him.

Puck

A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.

Duck

To evade; dodge
Duck responsibility.
Ducked the reporter's question.

Puck

A mischievous sprite of English folklore

Duck

To push (a person, for example) suddenly under water.

Puck

A vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey

Duck

In bridge, to deliberately play a card that is lower than (an opponent's card).

Duck

To lower the head or body.

Duck

To move swiftly, especially so as to escape being seen
Ducked behind a bush.

Duck

To submerge the head or body briefly in water.

Duck

To evade a responsibility or obligation. Often used with out
Duck out on one's family.

Duck

In bridge, to lose a trick by deliberately playing lower than one's opponent.

Duck

(intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
Duck! There's a branch falling off the tree!

Duck

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

Duck

(transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.

Duck

(intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

Duck

(intransitive) To bow.

Duck

(transitive) To evade doing something.

Duck

(transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.

Duck

(intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag?

Duck

(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.

Duck

An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.

Duck

Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.

Duck

(uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.

Duck

(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)

Duck

(slang) A playing card with the rank of two.

Duck

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.

Duck

A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.

Duck

(US) A cairn used to mark a trail.

Duck

One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.

Duck

Synonym of lame duck

Duck

(medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.

Duck

A faggot; a meatball made from offal.

Duck

A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.

Duck

(in plural) Trousers made of such material.

Duck

A term of endearment; pet; darling.

Duck

(Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

Duck

A pet; a darling.

Duck

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.

Duck

The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

Duck

Any bird of the subfamily Anatinæ, family Anatidæ.

Duck

A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
Here be, without duck or nod,Other trippings to be trod.

Duck

To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.

Duck

To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

Duck

To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

Duck

To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.

Duck

To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
The learned pateDucks to the golden fool.

Duck

Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

Duck

(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

Duck

Flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

Duck

A heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

Duck

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

Duck

Submerge or plunge suddenly

Duck

Dip into a liquid;
He dipped into the pool

Duck

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
He dodged the issue
She skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
He evaded the questions skillfully

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