ducket

== English == === Etymology 1 === Uncertain; perhaps a variant of dovecote. First attested in the late 1900s. ==== Noun ==== ducket (plural duckets) An aviary or other enclosure for keeping domesticated pigeons; a dovecote. (historical, UK) 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. ==== Verb ==== ducket (third-person singular simple present duckets, present participle ducketing, simple past and past participle ducketed) (Of a pigeon) to enter its ducket. ==== References ==== “ducket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== ducket (plural duckets) Obsolete form of ducat. === Anagrams === tucked == German == === Pronunciation === === Verb === ducket second-person plural subjunctive I of ducken