English Explanatory Dictionary

ducket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote.
  2. A windowed, box-like structure mounted to the top or side of the brake van of a train, from which the guard has a clearer view along the railway track.
verb
  1. to enter its ducket.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of ducat.

Word forms

ducket duckets ducketing ducketed

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of dovecote. First attested in the late 1900s.

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