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ducket

ducket noun: an aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote. Also the obsolete form of ducat.

Noun

ducket (plural duckets)

  1. An aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote.
    • At the Kyle-fence end of the ducket Jerry’s recently designed trapdoor allowed Monte a shoofty freedom - even from Grandad - which he never had before.1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 77
  2. (UK, historical) A windowed, box-like structure mounted to the top or side of the brake van of a train, from which the guard has a clearer view along the railway track.
    • Access to the veranda is by means of hinged doors, and a deep ducket or projection is provided on each side to form a lookout.1952 January, “British Railways Standard Wagons”, in Railway Magazine, page 59

Verb

ducket (third-person singular simple present duckets, present participle ducketing, simple past and past participle ducketed)

  1. (Of a pigeon) to enter its ducket.
    • Mrs Allsop and her bar-blue brother travelled well together in good times, but after they ducketed she would chase him from niche to niche, henpecking him while Monte tried to collar them and collect their rings.1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 104

Also used as

ducket is also the obsolete form of ducat.

Forms of ducket

Noun
pluralduckets
Verb
third-person singular presentduckets
present participleducketing
past participleducketed
pastducketed

Origin of ducket

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of dovecote. First attested in the late 1900s.

Questions about ducket

What does ducket mean?
Ducket means an aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote.
What part of speech is ducket?
Ducket can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of ducket?
The plural of ducket is duckets.

Words near ducket in the dictionary

  1. duckers
  2. duckery
  3. duckes
  4. duckess
  5. duckesses
  6. ducket
  7. ducketed
  8. ducketing
  9. duckets
  10. Duckett
  11. duckface

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