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Duck down   /dək daʊn/   Listen
Duck down

noun
1.
Down of the duck.






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"Duck down" Quotes from Famous Books



... feet, shook his head to get his tangled hair out of his eyes and came in, whip swung back! Kid Wolf had no time to duck down for the gun. The heavy stock was humming through the air in a ...
— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens

... He set the white duck down. She shook her feathers and again spoke interrogatively. And now Diogenes lifted his head and answered. For a few moments he rent the air with his song of triumph. Then he turned and led the way to the river. There was a quiet pool in the bend of the bank. The old drake ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey

... ravin' crazy," he snorts, returning to command. "She says there's a bad blow-out ahead and wants me to pull over to Greenland. I'll see her pithed first! We wasted half an hour fussing over that dead duck down under, and now I'm expected to go rubbin' my back all round the Pole. What does she think a Postal packet's made of? Gummed silk? Tell her we're ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Duck down" :   eiderdown, down feather, duck, down



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