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duck press

duck press noun: a machine used to extract the blood and bone marrow from a duck for use in pressed duck.

duck press: a machine used to extract the blood and bone marrow from a duck for use in pressed duck
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Noun

duck press (plural duck presses)

  1. A machine used to extract the blood and bone marrow from a duck for use in pressed duck.
    • Cut off the breast carefully from four snipe, put the frames in a duck press with a clove of garlic, two cloves, three whole pepper corns and a sprig of parsley, turn the screw and obtain all the juice possible.1890, Thomas Jefferson Murrey, “English Snipe”, in Good Things from a Chafing Dish, page 94
    • As the bird's wings and legs, coated in mustard and bread crumbs, were whisked off to the kitchen for roasting, Dorin placed the bird's carcass into the duck press and added a gurgle of deep red Burgundy.2016, Alex Prud'homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

Forms of duck press

pluralduck presses

Questions about duck press

What does duck press mean?
Duck press means a machine used to extract the blood and bone marrow from a duck for use in pressed duck.
What part of speech is duck press?
Duck press is a noun.
What is the plural of duck press?
The plural of duck press is duck presses.

Words near duck press in the dictionary

  1. duck out
  2. duck pond
  3. duck ponds
  4. duck potato
  5. duck potatoes
  6. duck press
  7. duck presses
  8. duck race
  9. duck races
  10. duck sauce
  11. duck sauces

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