shelduckn.
/ˈʃɛldʌk/, U.S. /ˈʃɛlˌdək/ = sheldrake n.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake)
sheldrakec1325
bergander1544
skeeling-goose1578
scaledrake1600
burranet1602
sheld-fowl?1606
burrow-duck1678
vulpanser1706
shelduck1707
mountain duck1711
sly-goose1776
Brahminy duck1813
paradise duck1813
red goose1848
stock annet1852
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 259 If you would preserve wild Ducks, Teal, Widgeon, Shell-ducks, &c. you should have a place walled in with a Pond in it.
1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. Pl. 86 Swallow Tailed Shielduck.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough ix. 125 The sleeping Shell-ducks at the sound arise.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 19 Tadorna Casarca. The Ruddy Shielduck.
1908 Zoologist 12 124 Sheld-Duck seen at Fritton by Mr. Buxton.
1925 C. W. R. Knight Aristocrats of Air x. 124 I did not succeed in locating a Shelduck's nest.
1939 J. Fisher Birds as Animals xi. 190 In..black skimmer and shelduck, both birds incubate.
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xi. 190 Shelduck, well-known for making their nests in holes, often choose ant-bear burrows.
1972 Country Life 3 Feb. 274/1 The shelduck is the largest and most striking bird of the English shores.
Derivatives
sheld-fowl n. (also shield-fowl, shell-fowl) the sheldrake.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake)
sheldrakec1325
bergander1544
skeeling-goose1578
scaledrake1600
burranet1602
sheld-fowl?1606
burrow-duck1678
vulpanser1706
shelduck1707
mountain duck1711
sly-goose1776
Brahminy duck1813
paradise duck1813
red goose1848
stock annet1852
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H3v The hungry shell-fowle from whose rape doth flye Th'unnumbred sholes.
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 76 Sheld..inde Shel~drake & sheld fowle, Suss.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 626 Cormorants, Brants, Shield-fowl.
1890 R. Borland Yarrow 119 Speckled schell-fowl hovering nigh.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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