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The shrew mole. See under Shrew.

bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence: To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to thro…

ral species of short-tailed American shrews of the genus Blarina, esp. B. brevicauda. -- Water mole, the duck mole.