"Duck-shoving is the term used by our Melbourne cabmen to express the unprofessional trick of breaking the rank, in order to push past the cabman on the stand for the purpose of picking up a stray passenger or so."
1896. `Otago Daily Times,' Jan. 25, p. 3, col. 6:
"The case was one of a series of cases of what was technically known as `duck shoving,' a process of getting passengers which operated unfairly against the cabmen who stayed on the licensed stand and obeyed the by-law."
<hw>Dudu</hw>, <i>n</i>. aboriginal name for a pigeon, fat-breasted, and very good eating.
1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (3rd ed. 1855), c. vii. p. 170:
"In the grassland, a sort of ground pigeon, called the dudu, a very handsome little bird, got up and went off like a partridge, strong and swift, re-alighting on the ground, and returning to cover."
<hw>Duff</hw>, <i>v</i>. to steal cattle by altering the brands.
1869. E. Carton Booth, `Another England,' p. 138:
"He said there was a `duffing paddock' somewhere on the Broken River, into which nobody but the owner had ever found an entrance, and out of which no cattle had ever found their way—at any rate, not to come into their owner's possession. . . . The man who owned the `duffing paddock' was said to have a knack of altering cattle brands . . ."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. xiv. p. 162: