a pet; a darling.-a linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.-the light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.-to thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.-to plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.-to bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.-to go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.-to drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.-any bird of the subfamily anatinae, family anatidae.-a sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.