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wild duck

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meanings of wildand duck


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wild
adjective
uk /waɪld/ us /waɪld/
uncontrolled, violent, ...
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duck
noun
uk /dʌk/ us /dʌk/
a bird that lives by water and has webbed feet (= feet with skin between the toes), a short neck, and a ...
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Examples of wild duck


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I should have thought it advisable to include wildduck while in captivity in the definition of "livestock".
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Thirdly, the use of nets for taking wildduck in a duck decoy is illegal except for those already in use.
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The mallard, the common wildduck, for instance, would be well advised to make its nest some weeks later than it usually does.
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I think it would be a great pity to make the wildduck an exception.
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It is not only wildduck that moult.
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I come now to the question of the close season for wildduck and wild geese.
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I do not think the argument about disturbing breeding will be a serious argument in the case of wildduck.
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Are the eggs of a wildduck livestock?
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At the present time the numbers of wildduck breeding in this country, with the possible exception of one or two kinds, are actually increasing.
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It is to prevent the gradual extinction of wildduck and wild geese, which is imminent owing to the commercialisation of their species.
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I also wish to mention the wildduck or mallard.
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I look upon that process as the most profitable and fruitful way of extending and increasing wildduck in this country.
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Those words come very strangely at that point in view of the earlier reference to: "wild goose or wildduck".
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The provision is that nothing shall make unlawful: "the taking by an unauthorised person of any wild goose or wildduck".
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I should like to make one comment about authorised persons, the people who are to be allowed to sell wildduck eggs.
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Wildduck in this country are prolific and are not affected by it.
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The name was given by the cedar cutters because of the abundance of wildduck on the upper tidal reaches of the creek.
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Instructions given in the score include, for some passages, like a pigeon and like a wildduck.
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The town's name is derived from an aboriginal word meaning wildduck.
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Aqua fauna noted in the lake have been listed as wildduck, goose and many other species.
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