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# dabchick

noun (a dabchick, dabchicks)

«dabchick» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small water bird, also called the little grebe, which dives under water to catch small fish and insects and often swims with only its head showing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#m1)
2. Old name used for some other small grebes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#m2)

### In the lessons

A river-bank bird: in The Wind in the Willows the river is busy with water birds, and a dabchick is one of the shy small divers the Rat would know. In nature lessons: grebes have lobed (not webbed) toes and build floating nests. It dives so quickly it seems to vanish.

### Examples

- A dabchick bobbed up near the reeds and dived again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#x1)
- The little grebe is often called a dabchick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#x2)
- Dabchicks build floating nests of weed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#x3)
- We watched a dabchick diving for tiny fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#x4)
- The dabchick vanished under the water in a flash. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#x5)
- Two dabchicks trilled loudly on the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Old country name; birdwatchers today say «little grebe».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dabchick» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dabchick/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dabchick» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dabchick.html) on Mova free.