📚 noun • entry_id 40550
ducks and drakes
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cabrillas
A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface.
A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake.
They sat on a pebbly bank. Suddenly he caught sight of a nice flat stone, and, jumping up, began to make ducks and drakes on the water.
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