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- adjective Without
ducks .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Snipe have brightened duckless duck hunts and added variety to marshy pheasant hunts.
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I managed to find a short reprieve by dragging a large amount of laundry down to the blessedly duckless basement of the building, but the rest of the day was spent huddled in the back seat of a minivan with my big, noisy family because it was such a nice day for a drive.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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But the chance never came again and we went home duckless.
My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922
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This is on the theory that the duckless sportsmen of the State of California would like to _buy_ dead ducks and geese for their tables!
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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But the chance never came again and we went home duckless.
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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