sheldrake
IPA: ʃˈɛɫdreɪk
noun
- An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).
- A male shelduck.
- A merganser.
- The call sign for an artillery officer.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
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Examples of "sheldrake" in Sentences
- The sheldrake ducks also have a fleshy growth on the bill.
- It was Deep-water Peter, holding a gun in one hand, and a dead sheldrake in the other.
- In a lonesome inlet, a sheldrake, lost from the flock, sitting on the water, rocking silently;
- Or that I can dive down at one side of a Highland loch and come up at the other like a sheldrake?
- -- The _chakwâ_, male, and _chakwî_, female, is the ruddy goose or sheldrake, known to Europeans as the Brâhmanî duck, _Anas casarca_ or _Casarca rutila_.
- A subspecies of the critically endangered crested shelduck, called Kuroda's sheldrake Tadorna cristata kuroda, once occurred along the southern coast of Korea.
- Midsummer Day I saw a sheldrake (probably an escaped bird) flying down the river, looking very splendid in its black, white, and red plumage, in the bright light of the morning.
- Then her soul took the form of a sheldrake and its mate – those loving birds which, like the turtle-dove, are always constant, – and floating on the liquid pools, they mourned all day long the sad fate of the Princess Pepperina.
- Then her soul took the form of a sheldrake and its mate, -- those loving birds which, like the turtle-dove, are always constant, -- and floating on the liquid pools, they mourned all day long the sad fate of the Princess Pepperina.
- Sometimes, when fishing alongshore with my Indian at the paddle, the canoe would push its nose silently around a point, and I would see the heron's heavy slanting flight already halfway up to the tree-tops, long before our coming had been suspected by the watchful little mother sheldrake, or even by the deer feeding close at hand among the lily pads.
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