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Definition of Ducking
1. Noun. Hunting ducks.
2. Noun. The act of wetting something by submerging it.
Generic synonyms: Wetting
Derivative terms: Douse, Duck, Duck, Immerse, Submerge, Submerse
Definition of Ducking
1. Verb. (present participle of duck) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb '''to duck'''. ¹
3. Noun. An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ducking
1. duck [v] - See also: duck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ducking
Literary usage of Ducking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary (1891)
"The Cambridge ducking-stool used to be hung by a pulley to a beam in the centre
of the bridge of Magdalene College. When the wooden bridge in this place ..."
2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"It forms, however, but a very indifferent substitute for the joyous merriment of
ducking and diving. It is somewhat remarkable, that the sport of ducking ..."
3. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle (1896)
"Johnson said to a gentle Quaker lady: " Madam, we have different modes of
restraining evil — stocks for men, a ducking- stool for women, and a pound for ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"1 is an illustration of this kind of ducking- stool, which was in use at Broadwater,
... 2 there is an example of a tumbrel and ducking-stool combined, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"In the Chamberlain's Book are various entries of money paid to porters for taking
down the ‘ducking-stole;' and in the year 5597 three unfortunate females ..."
6. The Book of Table-talk by Charles MacFarlane, James Robinson Planché (1836)
"THE ducking-STOOL. BOSWELL relates that Dr. Johnson, in a conversation with Mrs.
Knowles, ... Blount thought this last name a corruption of ducking- stool ..."
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