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Whiteback

Whiteback \White"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The canvasback.

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whiteback

n. A wild duck, the canvasback.

Usage examples of "whiteback".

Those boats she could see now, those fisherwomen out on their feluccas beyond the white bands of breaking waves, their whole lives were dictated by these uncertainties, and the habits of the shoals of whiteback that came and went on the oceans, and which could also only be guessed at in this same approximate way.

Those boats she could see now, those fisherwomen out on their feluccas beyond the white bands of breaking waves, their whole lives were dictated by these uncertainties, and the habits of the shoals of whiteback which came and went on the oceans, which could also only be guessed at in this same approximate way.