dottrel

You have springed your dottrel, I find, and what is the consequence? — why, that there will be hue and cry after you presently.

Redgauntlet 2008

The splendid wild swan wheeled and trumpeted in the clear autumn air; the wild geese flew there in their beautiful V-shaped flight; duck in all the varieties known to modern sportsmen -- canvas-back, mallard, widgeon, redhead, oxeye, dottrel -- rested on the Chesapeake waters in vast flocks a mile wide and seven miles long.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

I have heard Captain Smith say more than once, that he had seen flocks of ducks a full mile wide and five or six miles long, wherein canvasbacks, mallard, widgeon, redheads, dottrel, sheldrake, and teal swam wing to wing, actually crowding each other.

Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony James Otis 1880

And he galloped on, as cheery as a boy, shouting at the rabbits as they scuttled from under his feet, and laughing at the dottrel as they postured and anticked on the mole-hills.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

You have springed your dottrel, I find, and what is the consequence?

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801