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  • noun Plural form of duckpond.

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Examples

  • You looked so sorry because sailors only sail round duckponds, when you thought they always sailed out by the West and home by the East.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • You looked so sorry because sailors only sail round duckponds, when you thought they always sailed out by the West and home by the East.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

  • At the beginning of their acquaintance her interest in Markham had not been unlike that of the motherly hen in the doings of the newly hatched duckling with which she differed as to the practical utility of duckponds.

    Madcap George Gibbs 1906

  • He was switched off in mid-sentence by the male presenter who went on to make some snide comments about "Tories claiming for their duckponds".

    Guy Fawkes' blog 2009

  • The great majority of such claims and housing flipping and duckponds, bookcases and enormous plasma TVs were APPROVED by this mysterious and shadowy office and I suppose there’s the get out for these slippery, egregiously mendacious and deeply dishonourable scumbags.

    McNulty Escapes With ‘A Talking To’ Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

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