duckflesh

Meanings

nounduckflesh (uncountable)

uncountableThe flesh of a duck.
A few spoon-bills were also to be seen, and lovers of duckflesh never turn up their noses at a spoon-bill.
1880 March 19, “About Game. And the Kind We Have Just Now.”, in Public Ledger, volume XXX, number 17, Memphis, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 5
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What would the reader think to seeing a farmer traveling to market with as many ducks as could be crowded into more than the space of the park between the City Hall and the postoffice in New York City—a mass of perhaps two city blocks of duckflesh and feathers? That was what was driven past us on the Grand Canal one day.
1895 July 30, Julian Ralph in Harper’s Magazine, “The Duck Farms of China”, in The Times-Democrat, volume XXXII, number 13,929, New Orleans, La., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 7
We had with us some dried duckflesh and some fruit, and resting at mid-day under the shade of a willow of immense age, we made as good a repast as the heat and the moisture permitted—I speak of myself and Bruce—heat and cramped limbs, apparently, troubling our companion as little as hunger, toil or storm.
1906, Edward Hardingham, “‘Has el Caballero no Message for La Reina?’”, in Hugh Leventhorpe, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book I (America), page 145
As for what “Hardshell” terms “the bad stuff” exported by me, I might mention that out of 30 ducks sent to the depot on trial only two were rejected on account of light weight. One of these was killed three days afterwards, and when dressed for the oven turned the scale at 3 ℔. 10 oz. For quality nothing better in the way of duckflesh could have been described by the most fastidious epicure.
1908 September 26, E. J. Ferris, “Government Produce Export Department”, in The Observer, volume LXV, part II, number 3,495, Adelaide, S.A., →OCLC, page 16, column 5
The general appraisers think that imported Chinese duckflesh when dried, salted and packed (with or without peanut oil) in tin cans is a clear case of “prepared or preserved meat,” and dutiable as such.
1909 April 20, “Note and Comment”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXXIII, Hartford, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 5
Among those who make regular trips to the river and have had at least a taste of duckflesh this season are: Herb Nelson, […]
1933 October 19, “Duck Hunters Not Elated About Results Up to Date”, in J. Allan Minger, editor, The Superior Express, volume XXXIV, number 42, Superior, Neb.: W. W. Driggs, →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 4
Synonyms: duck, duckmeat