Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A teal; especially, the common European teal, Querquedula crecca.
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Examples
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The level surface of the lake, undisturbed except by the occasional dipping of a teal-duck, or coot, was gilded with the beams of the setting luminary, and reflected, as if in a golden mirror, the hills amongst which it lay embossed.
The Abbot 2008
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The debris of supper lay around them -- scraps of pemmican, pannikins, spoons, knives, and the broken shells of teal-duck eggs which, having been picked up some time before, had gone bad.
The Big Otter 1859
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