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/ˈdaɪkɚ/ · noun
Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily..
Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).
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Duiker means Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily..
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Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).
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