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▪ I. ducking, vbl. n.1|ˈdʌkɪŋ|
[f. duck v. + -ing1.]
a. Immersion in water.
1581[see duck v. 1]. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 4 Ducking at Yards arme, hawling vnder the Keele. 1628Digby Voy. Medit. (1868) 60, I punished by ducking and other wayes a dozen..men. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Ducking, There is also a kind of dry ducking, wherein the patient is only suspended by a rope, a few yards above the surface of the water. 1771Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 30 His ducking sobered him a little. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 378 He ran no risk but of a sound ducking, being..a strong swimmer.
b. Prompt bowing or bending of the head or body.
1539T. Chapman in Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden) p. xv, Dome ceremonyes..dokynges, nodyngs, and bekynges. 1641Sanderson Serm. II. 6 What are all our crossings, and kneelings, and duckings? 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xxi, There was much..ducking of heads in the doorway.
▪ II. ˈducking, vbl. n.2
[f. duck n.1]
The catching or shooting of wild ducks. Also attrib., as ducking-punt; ducking-gun, a fowling-piece carrying a heavy charge a long way, so as to kill a large number of ducks in a flock at one shot.
1577E. Hogan in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 159 His pastime in ducking with water Spaniels. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. i, Keep company with none but the archers of Finsbury, or the citizens that come a ducking to Islington ponds! a1640Day Peregr. Schol. (1881) 77 Their wiues drew them..into the feilds a ducking with there water spaniells in somer. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneer xxii, The French ducking gun. 1880N. H. Bishop 4 Months in Sneak box 7 He constructed a new ducking-punt with a low paddle-wheel at its stern.
▪ III. ducking3
= duck n.3
1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. II. 238 Add pillow-case, sheeting, and ducking. 1904N.Y. Times 10 May 4 (Advt.), Splendid selection of duckings from which to make them [sc. awnings]. 1920J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 177 The silver..was placed in duckin' sacks.
▪ IV. ˈducking, ppl. a.
[f. duck v. + -ing2.]
That ducks, dives into water or bows the head.
a1400–50[see duck v. 1]. 1530Tindale Pract. Prel. K iv, A douckynge hypocrite. 1770Armstrong Imitations 88 The Cyclades appear'd Like ducking cormorants. |