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duck and drake
duck and drake [from the motion of the stone over the watery surface.] 1. A pastime consisting in throwing a flat stone or the like over the surface of water so as to cause it to rebound or skip as many times as possible before sinking. Chiefly in phr., to make a duck and drake, to play (at) duck an...
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Mister Drake's Duck
Mister Drake's Duck is a 1951 British science-fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee They are, of course, laboring one joke, but do come up with enough laughs to make Mister Drake's Duck a pleasant if slight lampoon."
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drake
drake/dreɪk; drek/ n1 male duck 雄鸭; 公鸭. Cf 参看 duck1 1.2 (idm 习语) play ducks and drakes with sb => ducks and drakes (duck1).
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Drake
Drake may refer to:
Animals
A male duck
People and fictional characters
Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family , a public-use airport south of Fayetteville, Arkansas
Drake, two variants of the Goodyear Duck 1940s American light amphibious aircraft
Drake Memorial
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drake
▪ I. drake1 (dreɪk) Forms 1 draca, (7 drack), 3– drake. [OE. draca:—Com. WGer. *drako, a. L. draco dragon: cf. MDu., MLG., OFris. drake, mod.Du. draak, OHG. trahho, MHG. trache, Ger. drache; also ON. dreki (Sw. drake, Da. drage).] (See also fire-drake.) 1. = dragon 2. Also a representation of this u...
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Duck family
Duck family may refer to:
A familial grouping for a duck, i.e. a drake and a female and their ducklings
Anatidae, the scientific taxonomic family that ducks are classified under
Duck family (Disney), the fictional family of cartoon ducks related to Donald Duck
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Mulard
The term mulard or moulard is generally reserved for offspring where the parental drake is a Muscovy and the duck is a Pekin. When the drake is a Pekin, the offspring tend to be smaller and are called hinnies.
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sheldrake
sheldrake (ˈʃɛldreɪk) Forms: 4 sheldedrake, selddrake, shelledrake, 5 scheldrak, 5–6 -drake, 7–9 shell(-)drake, 8 shel-drake, sheldrach, 8–9 shieldrake, (9 shield-drake), 6– sheldrake. [prob. f. sheld a. + drake2. A northern form skeldraik (see scaledrake) is recorded from 1600. Connexion with shiel...
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Shetland duck
The Shetland duck is a breed of domestic duck originating in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It is critically endangered. The bill and legs are black in the duck: in the drake, the legs may carry some orange, and the bill may be tinged with yellow.
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brissel-cock
† ˈbrissel-cock Obs. [Etymology uncertain; cf. bristle v. 2. Jamieson conjectures Brazil-cock.] A kind of fowl; ‘a turkey-cock’ (Jam.).c 1565 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. (1728) 146 (Jam.) There was..Swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, capercaill...
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The White Duck
Meanwhile, the white duck built a nest, laid three eggs, and hatched two fluffy ducklings and one little drake. The ducklings slept but the drake stayed awake, and when the witch called if they were asleep, the drake answered.
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shell-apple
shell-apple, -drake, -duck see sheldapple, sheldrake, shelduck.
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List of fictional ducks
, Quackerjack, Stegmutt, duck villains from the Darkwing Duck spinoff
Daisy Duck, Donald Duck's female counterpart
Darkwing Duck/Drake Mallard, main The Mad Duck, one of the enemies in EarthBound.
Prince Drake from Crazy Drake, 2D platformer released in 1996 for IBM PC compatibles.
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Domestic Muscovy duck
The domestic drake (male), length is about and weight is , while the domestic hen (female) is much smaller, at in length and in weight. The inverse cross, domestic drake with Muscovy duck, is possible, but infrequent.
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Crazy Drake
The protagonist of the game is a duck named Prince Drake, whose mission is to rescue a golden egg from Dr. Foulbrain, an evil scientist. Plot
Gameplay follows the character Prince Drake, the son of King Drake and Queen Drake of Loonville (Ducktropolis in the eGames version).
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