ducke

But when the Priest is at seruice no man sitteth, but gagle and ducke like so many Geese.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Deuoutly downe they ducke, with forehead to the ground, Was neuer more deceit in ragges, and greasie garments found: Almost the meanest man in all the countrey rides, The woman eke, against our vse, her trotting horse bestrides.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Auice {n} na: The ducke egges & suche like make grose humoures.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Deuoutly downe they ducke, with forehead to the ground,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584

But when the Priest is at seruice no man sitteth, but gagle and ducke like so many Geese.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

Still his mind was a whispering gallery of words; the famous “barefooted friars” singing vespers may have been a recollection of Marlowe’s “And ducke as low as any bare – foot Fryar,” murmuring in the background.

The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

a night, and there we found great store of ducke egges, and other birds that there do make their nests, we named them all The Islettes.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

‘The ducke maketh a clere voyce, & causeth ma_n_ to lay gladdly in the armes & geueth hy_m_ the sede of nature/& the sewet is of it very good to souple all maner of paynes in the bodi of man.”

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867