Crossword-Solution: CANVASBACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Canvasback | n. | A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “CANVASBACK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Duck perched on a sail? | 1 answer |
| NORTH American wild duck | 1 answer |
| North American diving duck | 1 answer |
| North American wild duck valued for sport and food | 1 answer |
| North American diving duck with a sloping profile | 1 answer |
| Wild type | 1 answer |
| AMERICAN duck | 3 answers |
| North American duck | 3 answers |
| Wild duck | 4 answers |
| Certain duck | 5 answers |
| diving duck | 14 answers |
| type of duck | 15 answers |
| NORTH American bird | 48 answers |
| American bird | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CANVASBACK (5)
Then the teal and the wood-duck (it took a long time to paint the wood-duck) and the spoonbill and the blue-bill and the canvasback and the goose and the brant and the loon--all chose their paint.
Another work of high art was the lifelike representation of a noble sirloin; another, the hindquarters of a deer, retaining the hoofs and tawny fur; another, the head and shoulders of a salmon; and, still more exquisitely finished, a brace of canvasback ducks, in which the mottled feathers were depicted with the accuracy of a daguerreotype.
You had thought, perchance, there was no rite and ceremonial quite so impressive as a head waiter in a Fifth Avenue restaurant squeezing the blood out of a semi-raw canvasback in a silver duck press for a free spender from Butte or Pittsburgh.
They putted and drove in the North and South; they talked and laid links in the West; Till the waters rose o'er Ararat's tees, and the aching wrists could rest-- Could rest till that blank, blank canvasback, heard the Devil jeer and scoff, As he flew with the flood-fed olive branch, "Dry weather.
You don't degrade a' oyster, a soft shell crab, or a clam with confectionery; why a canvasback duck? "Now, Chad, serve coffee." The colonel pushed back his chair, and opened a drawer in a table on his right, producing three small clay pipes with reed stems and a buckskin bag of tobacco.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1981–2008).