Ducket

Quick meaning: Ducket is a noun meaning An aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote.

Meaning

An aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote.

More Meanings

1. (Of a pigeon) to enter its ducket.
2. Obsolete form of ducat.
3. (historical, British) 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.

Example Sentences

Access to the veranda is by means of hinged doors, and a deep ducket or projection is provided on each side to form a lookout.

At the Kyle-fence end of the ducket Jerry’s recently designed trapdoor allowed Monte a shoofty freedom - even from Grandad - which he never had before.

Mrs Allsop and her bar-blue brother travelled well together in good times, but after they ducketed she would chase him from niche to niche, henpecking him while Monte tried to collar them and collect their rings.

Word Forms

• duckets
• ducketing
• ducketed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ducat, drawer, dennet, dooring, dinkey, dunny.

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