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Definition of Dabchick
1. Noun. Small European grebe.
Definition of Dabchick
1. n. A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied- billed grebe.
Definition of Dabchick
1. Noun. (British) Popular name for the little grebe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dabchick
1. a small grebe [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dabchick
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dabchick
Literary usage of Dabchick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"dabchick Number Two, on the demise of dabchick Number One ... qualities, possibly
the firm of' dabchick and Company' might have still been in the zenith of ..."
2. Ornithological & Other Oddities by Frank Finn (1907)
"THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE dabchick EVEN in Shakespeare's time the ... I should
premise that to all intents and purposes the Indian dabchick is the same as ..."
3. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1856)
"The dabchick is very generally distributed over the British Islands, and though
more commonly seen perhaps in winter than in summer, appears both in the ..."
4. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1897)
"The dabchick I am about to allude to is the very latest example of sailing-boats,
up to date, and was classed only last year as a half-rater. ..."
5. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"(AMERICAN dabchick.) Podiceps dominions, Barm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. ...
This representative of the well-known " dabchick " of Europe is found throughout ..."
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