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shielduck

shielduck is the obsolete form of shelduck.

Meaning of shelduck

Noun

shelduck (plural shelducks or shelduck)

  1. Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.

Forms of shielduck

pluralshielducks

Questions about shielduck

What is shielduck the obsolete form of?
Shielduck is the obsolete form of shelduck.

Words near shielduck in the dictionary

  1. shieldsmen
  2. shieldsmith
  3. shieldsmiths
  4. shieldtail
  5. shieldtails
  6. shielduck
  7. shielducks
  8. shieldwall
  9. shieldwalls
  10. shieldwise
  11. shieldwright

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shielduck (page history and authors); shelduck (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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