Crossword clues for ducks and drakes
ducks and drakes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drakestone \Drake"stone\, n. A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.
Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe,
run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is
called drakestone.
--De Quincey.
Wiktionary
n. A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface.
WordNet
n. a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water
Wikipedia
Ducks and Drakes is an extant 1921 American silent comedy film produced and released by Realart Pictures, an offshoot of Paramount Pictures. It was directed by stage producer/director Maurice Campbell and starred Bebe Daniels (also a producer on this film) and Jack Holt. Elmer Harris provided the story and screenplay. A copy is held at the Library of Congress, and a limited edition DVD is scheduled for release in 2015 by Edward Lorusso via a Kickstarter campaign.
Usage examples of "ducks and drakes".
Surely someone who could play ducks and drakes with his own life like this must be insane?
Duff-Muggli, who now may be quoted by very kind arrangement (his dectroscophonious photosensition under suprasonic light control may be logged for by our none too distant futures as soon astone values can be turned out from Chromophilomos, Limited at a millicentime the microamp), first called this kind of paddygoeasy partnership the ulykkhean or tetrachiric or quadrumane or ducks and drakes or debts and dishes perplex (v.
When I went through his pockets, they were stuffed full of coin and all the children come to play ducks and drakes with gold pieces on the river.
How such a man, whose parts enable him to bring a long and difficult campaign to a successful conclusion, can play ducks and drakes with his hard-earned fortune, launching blindfold into chimerical schemes, signing unread documents, trusting his fellow-men, is beyond my comprehension.
Saturday the children were playing ducks and drakes and, like them, I wanted to throw a stone into the sea.
You fling your money about - ducks and drakes - you talk about marriage, although you know, or ought to know, that it is death to a sea-officer's career, at least until he is made post - you lead drunken parties at a Tory by-election - you come here and say you must have a ship.
You fling your money about - ducks and drakes - you talk about marriage, although you know, or ought to know, that it is death to a sea-officer’.
In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make.
The hands knew that they had their precious exemption and that they had succeeded in remaining on the books, the highly selective books, of the most extraordinarily successful privateer afloat, one whose recent list of prizes had enabled even the humblest seamen she carried to play ducks and drakes with gold pieces if they chose.