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▪ I. ducker1|ˈdʌkə(r)|
Forms: 5 dokare, 5–6 dowker, 6 douker, Sc. dowcare, 7 doucker, 9 Sc. dooker, 7– ducker.
[f. duck v. + -er1. In sense 2 it corresponds to MDu. and MLG. dûker, Du. duiker, Ger. taucher diver (bird).]
One who or that which ducks or dives.
1. A person who ducks or dives under water; a diver. In mod. Sc., douker, dooker, a bather.
1483Cath. Angl. 105/1 A Dowker, emergator. 1508Kennedy Flyting w. Dunbar 379 Thou sailit to get a dowcare, for to dreg it. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage V. xii. 431 Fished for by duckers, that dive into the water. 1893Scott. Leader 29 Dec. 7 Glasgow Morning Dookers Holiday Races.
2. A diving bird: applied to the Colymbidæ or Divers generally; also spec. the little grebe or dabchick.
b. A local name of the Water Ouzel.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 762 Hic mergulus, a dokare. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Collimbris..the birde called a Douker, or Didapper. 1691Ray Creation 147 Some sorts of Colymbi or Douckers. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. Introd. (1711) 11 Divers Duckers, and other Sea Birds. 1805Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 380 [Amongst] the sea⁓fowls are..scarfs or black duckers. 1837Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds II. 50 Cinclus Europæus..Dipper, Ducker. 1859A. Smith in Macm. Mag. I. 122 Gulls of all kinds are there, dookers and divers of every description.
†3. A fighting-cock that ducks its head. Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 252/1 A Ducker, or Doucker, is such a kind of Cock as in his Fighting will run about the Clod almost at every blow he gives.
4. ‘A cringer’ (J.).
¶ Meaning uncertain: Todd inserts it under 4; others would explain as = duck-hunter.
1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster v. iv. (1620) 60 My dainty duckers, vp with your three-pil'd spirits.
▪ II. ducker2
[f. duck n.1 + -er1.]
1. One who breeds or rears ducks.
1885Daily News 14 July 2/2 Often the eggs are sold to a ‘ducker’. 1889Pall Mall G. 14 May 3/1 Ducks are..dirty creatures, and if ‘cleanliness be next to godliness’ the Aylesbury duckers are a long way removed.
2. A ducking-gun.
1896Month Mar. 390 He warned us in the most terrible manner not to get near his heavy ducker in the bows. |