"ducking coat" meaning in English

See ducking coat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: ducking coats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ducking coat (plural ducking coats)
  1. A short, warmly lined waterproof jacket, made in neutral colors or camouflage. Categories (topical): Clothing
    Sense id: en-ducking_coat-en-noun-Nm8ftr-g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for ducking coat meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ducking coats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ducking coat (plural ducking coats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "en:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896, The Texas Criminal Reports, page 413",
          "text": "That he had collected the money on some promissory notes due him, and put it in the pocket of a ducking coat, fastened the pocket with a wire, and when he went to bed, put the coat under his head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, William Peery, Twenty-one Texas Short Stories, page 207",
          "text": "The frost got to biting my fingers and toes. But I was plenty warm inside my new ducking coat that had a red blanket lining.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 19",
          "text": "The satchel had belonged to his grandfather and the blanketlined duckingcoat he wore had been his father's.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young, A Vaquero of the Brush Country, page 120",
          "text": "Powerless to help, I had to watch both him and my horse drown. My boots, leggins, spurs, six-shooter, and ducking coat seemed to weigh tons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short, warmly lined waterproof jacket, made in neutral colors or camouflage."
      ],
      "id": "en-ducking_coat-en-noun-Nm8ftr-g",
      "links": [
        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "lined",
          "lined"
        ],
        [
          "waterproof",
          "waterproof"
        ],
        [
          "jacket",
          "jacket"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ducking coat"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ducking coats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ducking coat (plural ducking coats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Clothing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896, The Texas Criminal Reports, page 413",
          "text": "That he had collected the money on some promissory notes due him, and put it in the pocket of a ducking coat, fastened the pocket with a wire, and when he went to bed, put the coat under his head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, William Peery, Twenty-one Texas Short Stories, page 207",
          "text": "The frost got to biting my fingers and toes. But I was plenty warm inside my new ducking coat that had a red blanket lining.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 19",
          "text": "The satchel had belonged to his grandfather and the blanketlined duckingcoat he wore had been his father's.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young, A Vaquero of the Brush Country, page 120",
          "text": "Powerless to help, I had to watch both him and my horse drown. My boots, leggins, spurs, six-shooter, and ducking coat seemed to weigh tons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short, warmly lined waterproof jacket, made in neutral colors or camouflage."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "lined",
          "lined"
        ],
        [
          "waterproof",
          "waterproof"
        ],
        [
          "jacket",
          "jacket"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ducking coat"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.