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flight n Cp OED ~ sb1 1 e, 8, 9; EDD 7:
flighting-time.
Comb flight-duck: a migratory duck in a
flock.
[1783] 1792 CARTWRIGHT iii, 32 Edwards killed seven
flight-ducks, and got three of them.
flight-time: migration
period of wildfowl.
[1770] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 19 In the
flight-time, which commences about the middle of April, and commonly ends with the month
of May, he said, they had killed above fifteen hundred ducks, which appeared probable
enough, from the bags of feathers he shewed me. 1792 ibid Gloss i, x ~ The
periodical migration of ducks.
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