Crossword-Solution: SHELDRAKE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sheldrake | n. | Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. |
| Sheldrake | n. | Any one of the American mergansers. |
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| goosander | 1 answer |
| BRIGHT plumed bird | 3 answers |
| Merganser | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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Sentences with SHELDRAKE (5)
There were geese, barrel-headed and black-backed, teal, widgeon, mallard, and sheldrake, with curlews, and here and there a flamingo.
Then her soul took the form of a sheldrake and its mate,--those loving birds which, like the turtle-dove, are always constant,--and floating on the liquid pools, they mourned all day long the sad fate of the Princess Pepperina.
DUCKS AND OYSTERS I have heard Captain Smith say more than once, that he had seen flocks of ducks a full mile wide and five or six miles long, wherein canvasbacks, mallard, widgeon, redheads, dottrel, sheldrake, and teal swam wing to wing, actually crowding each other.
Special appliances were made for the boy, under their superintendence, by a scientific bootmaker named Sheldrake, in the Strand.
Look! The sheldrake does not heed his mate Who calls behind the lotus-leaf; He drops the lily from his bill And turns on you a glance of grief.
Quotes with SHELDRAKE (1)
I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library." Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.