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PRONUNCIATION: | sôrd |
NOUN: | A flight of mallards. See synonyms at flock1. | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English sorde, from sorden, to rise up in flight, from Old French sordre, from Latin surgere, to rise. See surge.
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