| 单词 | to make a duck and drake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a duck and drake a. A pastime consisting in throwing a flat stone or the like over the surface of water so as to cause it to rebound or skip as many times as possible before sinking. Chiefly in to make a duck and drake, to play (at) duck and drake. (Often in plural.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > stone-throwing games duck and drake1585 dust-point1611 duck1821 duck's-off1888 knicker1900 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake. c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 174 Ye poorest ship Boy might on ye Thames make duckes & drakes wth pieces of Eight, fetchd out of Spayne. 1730 J. Swift Vindic. Ld. C—— 21 Scipio and Lelius..often play'd at Duck and Drake with smooth Stones on a River. 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Hydrostatics i. 2 The common play of making ducks and drakes, that is, throwing a flat stone in a direction nearly horizontal against a surface of water, and thus making it rebound, proves the water to be elastic. 1842 Peter Parley's Ann. 15 A shot made a duck-and-drake in the water. < as lemmas |
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