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shelduck, sheld-duck, shell-duck|ˈʃɛldʌk|
Also shielduck, shield-duck.
[f. sheldrake, by substitution of duck for drake.]
= sheldrake.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 259 If you would preserve wild Ducks, Teal, Widgeon, Shell-ducks, &c. you should have a place walled in with a Pond in it. 1770Pennant Brit. Zool. IV. 86 Swallow Tailed Shielduck. 1810Crabbe Borough ix, The sleeping shell-ducks at the sound arise. 1852Macgillivray Brit. Birds V. 19 Tadorna Casarca. The Ruddy Shielduck. 1908Zoologist Apr. 124 Sheld-Duck seen at Fritton by Mr. Buxton. 1925C. W. R. Knight Aristocrats of Air x. 124, I did not succeed in locating a Shelduck's nest. 1939J. Fisher Birds as Animals xi. 190 In..black skimmer and shelduck, both birds incubate. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xi. 190 Shelduck, well-known for making their nests in holes, often choose ant-bear burrows. 1972Country Life 3 Feb. 274/1 The shelduck is the largest and most striking bird of the English shores.
So sheld-fowl (also s(c)hell-, shield-), the sheldrake.
1593Drayton Man in Moon Poems (1619) 480 The greedie Shell-fowle, from whose rape doth flye Th'vnnumbred sholes. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 76 Sheld..inde Shel⁓drake & sheld fowle, Suss. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 626 Cormorants, Brants, Shield-fowl. 1890R. Borland Yarrow 119 Speckled schell-fowl hovering nigh. |