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Definition of Duckings
1. ducking [n] - See also: ducking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duckings
Literary usage of Duckings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"... crucifixes, cringes, duckings, their several attires and ceremonies, pictures
of saints, J indulgencies, pardons, vigils, fasting, feasts, crossing, ..."
2. The Heritage of Langdale by Mrs Annie French Hector, Alexander (1877)
"With many grins and duckings of 4he head Gomez produced a letter in Lady Helms-
ford's writing. "Take him and feed him, Victor," said Monteiro; ..."
3. A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1828)
"... in hostile manner laming, and amongst the struck Ever duckings* a hole in his
head, with as soe that the blood ran donne very strongly downe i his body. ..."
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