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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM |
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DECOY , a contrivance for the capture or enticing of duck
trap or enticement into a place or situation of danger. Decoys are usually made on the following plan: long tunnels leading from the sea, channel or estuary into a pool or pond
duck
English
century in these senses as " coy " and " coy-duck," from the Dutch kooi, a word which is ultimately connected with Latin cavea, hollow place, " cage."' The de-, with which the word begins, is either a corruption of " duck-coy," the Dutch article de, or a corruption of the Dutch eende-kooi, eende, duck. The New English
slang
term
ordinary sense, and, as the name of a game of cards
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