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Field-lane duck
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English
Etymology
Field Lane was a low London thoroughfare leading from the foot of Holborn Hill to the purlieus of Clerkenwell.
Noun
Field-lane duck
en UK obsolete slang A baked sheep's head.
References
en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary