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duck's egg

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Noun1.duck's egg - (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
duck
cricket - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
score - a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0"


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Minchin's paper, and by this means became a subject of compassionate conversation in the neighboring shops of Churchyard Lane as being afflicted with a tumor at first declared to be as large and hard as a duck's egg, but later in the day to be about the size of "your fist.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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