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ducketing

ducketing is the present participle and gerund of ducket.

Meaning of ducket

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

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Questions about ducketing

What is ducketing the present participle and gerund of?
Ducketing is the present participle and gerund of ducket.

Words near ducketing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ducketing (page history and authors); ducket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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