ducks and drakes

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ducks and drakes - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Drakestone \Drake"stone\, n.
     A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip
     from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so
     throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe,
           run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is
           called drakestone.                       --De Quincey.
     [1913 Webster]

ducks and drakes - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ducks and drakes
      n 1: a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface
           of calm water