Definitions for duikers

duikers dui·ker

Spelling: [dahy-ker]
IPA: /ˈdaɪ kər/

Duikers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in duikers (deikrsu).

Definitions for duikers

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 duikers

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

Examples for duikers

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for duikers
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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