duck and drake

noun

1. ducks and drakes ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of duck and drake¹

First recorded in 1575–85

Example Sentences

Led by Robert Catesby, the small group of plotters — including Fawkes — met for the first time in 1604 at an inn in London called the Duck and Drake.

From New York Times

If this group of ducklings didn't make it, the duck and drake may well already be gearing up to try again, as a female duck can lay up to three clutches of eggs each nesting season.

From National Geographic

With a swift revulsion of feeling the girl knelt over a mallard duck and drake, the little brown mate by some trick of fate, with her dusky head lying across the neck of her bright-plumed lord.

From Project Gutenberg

They proved to be a duck and drake of the White-fronted Duck—Erismatura mersa—heavily built diving-ducks, round in the back, broad and flat in the chest, with small wings like a Grebe, and long, stiff tails like a Cormorant—the latter, being carried underwater as a rudder, is not visible when the bird is swimming.

From Project Gutenberg

“The bullet went duck and drake; I saw it.”

From Project Gutenberg