duckmanEtymologyProbably from duckman, a dated term for someone who raises duck to produce meat. Compare Duckmanton.nameA surname.nounSomeone who raises ducks to produce meat.“The vegetables, which are often difficult for the duckman to obtain, the farmer sorts out from his potatoes turnips, beets, cabbages, etc., and places but little value upon them. Fed to ducks this inferior quality will produce meat salable at fifteen to thirty cents per pound.”