ducks and drakes

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   a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water

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Questions about ducks and drakes

What does ducks and drakes mean?

ducks and drakes means "a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water".

Is ducks and drakes a common word?

ducks and drakes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.