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

  • Sheldrake does not address this question.
  • Sheldrake doesn't get to write the intro.
  • Sheldrake managed to capture two gunboats.
  • The ship was named after the sheldrake duck.
  • Rupert Sheldrake's work is naive in the extreme.
  • Sheldrake purports to be a theoretical biologist.
  • Sheldrake is a complex person with a lot of work.
  • Sheldrake is pretty much sidelined in all of that.
  • Sheldrake is a pseudoscientist, let's leave it at that.
  • The sheldrake ducks also have a fleshy growth on the bill.
  • Is it simply the satisfaction of vandalizing the Sheldrake page
  • 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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