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Decoy-duck A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. n.

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Buffel duck A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.
Muscovy duck A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil.
Raven's-duck A fine quality of sailcloth. n.
Sea duck Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.
Vicissy duck A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated.
Decoy Hear!
To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
v. t.
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Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
n.
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A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
n.
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A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
n.
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A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
n.
Decoy-men of Decoy-man pl.
Decoy-man A man employed in decoying wild fowl. n.
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A pet; a darling.
n.
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A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
n.
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The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
n.
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To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
v. t.
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To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
v. t.
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To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
v. t.
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To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
v. i.
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To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
v. i.