canvasbacks
- plural of canvasback.
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Also spotted, but in fewer numbers, were snow geese, buffleheads, redheads, goldeneyes, American widgeon, ruddy, ring-necked, canvasbacks, scaup and wood ducks.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 15, 2015
Mr. Chrysler explained that he regularly scattered grain over his marshes except during hunting season, said 500 canvasbacks had boarded there last winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the most excited U. S. gunners last week were the 1,000,000 duck shooters looking forward to their rendezvous with canvasbacks, mallards, black ducks, pintails.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heavy-resin cast mallards and canvasbacks appear to have made a bad landing at your doorstep.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are to society what their own wild turkeys and canvasbacks are to the menu.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
