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ducks and drakes (d

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The game of skipping flat stones along the surface of water.

Idiom:

make ducks and drakes of/play ducks and drakes with

To squander; waste.

ducks and drakes

n (functioning as singular)

1. (Group Games / Games, other than specified) a game in which a flat stone is bounced across the surface of water

make ducks and drakes of or play (at) ducks and drakes with to use recklessly; squander or waste

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Noun

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

game - an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games"

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Drakestone duck game Improvidence			We analysed this threshold speed theoretically and found a connection to the physics of stone skipping. Bumpy drives may soon be history by Asian News International Brian Barnett describes himself as Pennsylvania's High Commissioner of Stone Skipping - the US name for the sport. Stone us! Russ has 51 skims by The Mirror (London, England) The camera merely skims the surface of things like a flat stone skipping over water. Wolfgang Tillmans: UCLA Hammer Museum by Tumlir, Jan / Artforum International			Stone hammer Stone hawk Stone jar stone life face stone lily Stone lugger stone marten Stone mason stone massage stone mimicry plant stone mint Stone Mountain Stone oil stone parsley Stone perch stone pine stone pit Stone pitch stone plant Stone plover stone roller stone root stone saw Stone sheep stone shoot Stone skipping Stone snipe Stone thrush Stone toter stone wall Stone's cast stone's throw stone-blind Stone-break stone-broke stone-cold stone-dead stone-deaf stone-face stone-faced stone-gray stone-grey stone-ground Stone-hearted Stone-horse stone-lily Stone-mortar stone-root stone-sober Stone-still stone-wash			Stone of Scone Stone of Tears Stone oil stone parsley Stone perch stone pine stone pine stone pines stone pit Stone pitch stone plant Stone plover stone polygon Stone Polygons Stone quarry Stone quarry Stone quarry stone retrieval basket Stone Ridge Center for the Arts stone ring Stone roller stone root stone sand stone saw stone searcher stone searcher stone searcher Stone sheep stone shoot Stone skipping stone slate Stone snipe stone sober Stone soup Stone Soup Symphony Stone State Park Stone statue Stone statue Stone Studio Video Productions Stone Table Software Stone Temple Pilots Stone The Crows stone the crows! stone the crows! stone the crows! stone the crows! Stone thrush stone tool industry Stone toter Stone Town Stone Town Conservation and Development Authority stone wall Stone Wall Initiative Stone Webster Engineering Corporation Stone wool Stone wool Stone's cast Stone's Law Stone's representation theorem

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ducks and drakes (redirected from Stone skipping)

ducks and drakes
(redirected from Stone skipping)