Crossword clues for canvasback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canvasback \Can"vas*back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A Species of duck ( Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.
Wiktionary
n. A North American wild duck, ''Aythya valisineria'', popular as a game bird.
WordNet
n. North American wild duck valued for sport and food [syn: canvasback duck, Aythya valisineria]
Wikipedia
The canvasback (Aythya valisineria) is a species of diving duck, the largest found in North America.
Usage examples of "canvasback".
Pack a lunch, bring along my favourite pipe, just sit with the wife on a blanket and try to teach the kids the difference between a teal and a canvasback, you know.
And they learned to eat roasted mallard and canvasback in the California style of sixteen minutes in a hot oven.
He was convinced canvasback ducks, properly roasted and served with loaf sugar, were the finest fowl in the world.
Interspersed among them were big canvasback troop-carriers, their headlamps glaring in the brightening daylight.
And I think I see some canvasbacks, though that would be peculiar, this time of year.
The supple Patrick Henry Hanway thanked the aristocracy for the honor, took the place, and carried out their wishes for patrolling oysterbeds, protecting canvasbacks, and preventing foreclosures.
East pay seven dollars a pair for canvasbacks and even pick up the cold freight charge.
Covering its surface were over a hundred mallards, canvasbacks and mud hens.
Hay himself drank only one glass of wine during the dinner, whose two principal features were a thick terrapin soup and canvasback duck, which Herndon had never tasted before.
It is now two in the morning, and for some time the terrapin has been warring with the canvasback duck, whose eagle-like beak tears at my Promethean liver.
That takes in caviare, smoked canvasback duck, salmon, finest aged fillet steak.
The courtly black waiter, more family butler than mere restaurant worker, said that it was, it was, and proposed diamond terrapin, a house specialty, and, of course, canvasback duck, which would be served, Caroline knew, bloody and terrible.
Yes, I'm partial to canvasback duck and soft-shell crabs when I can get 'em, but what Baltimorean isn't?
Ducks… mallards and canvasbacks and big black ducks, ducks beyond all reason, more varieties than he could name.
Real turtle, we understand, and salmon, tautog, canvasbacks, pig, English mutton, good roast beef, or dainties of that serious kind, fit for substantial country gentlemen, as these honorable persons mostly are.