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Sheldrake

noun

Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges. Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill.

Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill.

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... stretches of verdant grass, her long curling hair into lovely creepers and tendrils, while her scarlet mouth and white teeth became a beautiful bed of roses and narcissus. Then her soul took the form of a sheldrake and its mate,—those loving birds which, like the turtle-dove, are always constant,—and floating on the liquid pools, they mourned all day long the sad ...

— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel

... happened; when he knew what had happened he seized his bow to beat her; when she saw him seize his bow to beat her she ran down to the river, and jumped in to escape death at his hands, though it should be by drowning. But as she fell into the water she became a sheldrake duck. And to this day the marks of the red stain are to be seen on her feet and feathers. [Footnote: Related to me by Noel Josephs, a Passamaquoddy. Notwithstanding its resemblance to Blue Beard, it is probably in every detail ...

— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland

... "if I go the length of my toe on such an errand. Do the folk think I have a spare windpipe in my pocket, after John Highlandman has slit this one with his jocteleg? Or that I can dive down at one side of a Highland loch and come up at the other like a sheldrake? Na, na, every one for himself, and God for us all! Folk may just go on their own errands. Rob Roy is no concern of mine. He never came near my native parish of Dreepdaily to steal either pippin or pear from ...

— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

... "Abe Sheldrake! as sure as ham is hog's flesh! Abe, if there's an onrier man than you on earth, the bottomless pit ...

— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable

Words linked to "Sheldrake" : sawbill, Mergus, Lophodytes cucullatus, sea duck, Mergus albellus, shelduck, genus Mergus, merganser, Mergus merganser americanus, red-breasted merganser, goosander, duck, smew, Mergus merganser, Tadorna, American merganser, Mergus serrator, genus Tadorna, hooded merganser