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noun
An aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical
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noun
Obsolete form of ducat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
to enter its ducket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Of a pigeon
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History
Uncertain; perhaps a variant of dovecote. First attested in the late 1900s.
