dabchick
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dabchick
1565–75; earlier dapchick ( see dap, chick); compare doppened moorhen (literally, dipping duck)
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As he spoke he bobbed and dipped like a dabchick or little grebe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Uncle Jack obeyed, while as Norman looked up, he saw himself apparently covered by the two guns, and at once dived like a dabchick.
From The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Thus far, we have got for representatives of our dabchick group, eight species of little birds—namely, two Torrent-ouzels, three Lily-ouzels, one Grebe, and two Titanias.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin
Hardly a wild-duck is now seen; one or two moorhens or a dabchick seem all.
From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies
Spī′der-catch′er, the wall-creeper; Spī′der-crab, a spider-like crab, or sea-spider with long thin legs; Spī′der-dīv′er, the little grebe, or dabchick; Spī′derdom, spiders collectively.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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