Definitions for duiker

duiker dui·ker

Spelling: [dahy-ker]
IPA: /ˈdaɪ kər/

Duiker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in duiker (deikru).

Definitions for duiker

noun

  1. any of several small African antelopes of the Cephalophus, Sylvicapra, and related genera, the males and often the females having short, spikelike horns: some are endangered.

Origin of duiker

1770-80; Afrikaans, Dutch duiker diver, equivalent to duiken to dive (see duck2) + -er -er1

Examples for duiker

On the following day I shot a reitbok, a duiker, and three corans.

Further converse was interrupted by the sudden bursting of a duiker, or large antelope, from a thicket close beside them.

They are all small, the dik-dik being scarcely larger than a rabbit, and they are divided into as many subspecies as the duiker.

When the duiker was asleep, the inkalimeva ate up all the fat.

Then the inkalimeva hid itself, and the duiker looked for it till he was so tired that he lay down and went to sleep.

It proposed to the duiker that they should play hide and look for.

By this means three duiker were soon killed, and we then lighted a fire, and enjoyed a feast of venison.

My first great sporting achievement was in killing a duiker, a small antelope that was found in bushy or stony country.

The animals, when they heard the cry, ran to the kraal and killed the duiker.

They put fat in the kraal a third time, and appointed the duiker (impunzi) to be the keeper of the gate.

Word Value for duiker
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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