duckman
nomattesté dans les dialogues
Someone who raises ducks to produce meat.
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vieilliSomeone who raises ducks to produce meat.
The vegetables, which are often difficult for the duckman to obtain, the farmer sorts out from his potatoes turnips, beets, cabbages, etc., and places but little value upon them. Fed to ducks this inferior quality will produce meat salable at fifteen to thirty cents per pound.
After all items were battened down and luggage given a protective cover of feed sacks, duckmen and ducks rolled out in comparative quiet. But at the first gasoline stop, the waterfowl were fooled by the bright lights into thinking it was morning.
Étymologie
From duck + -man.
Formes
- pluriel
- duckmen