Word of the Day:
duckling
What It Means
A young duck.
Duckling in Context
“Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return...”
Did You Know?
From Middle English dokeling, dukling, dookelynge (“duckling”), equivalent to duck + -ling.
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