Mr. Couch led him to a wooden decoy of a flamingo he said was carved in middle Tennessee.

The idea spread rapidly and by 1840 the wooden decoy was firmly established in American hunting traditions.

N. W. Cusa's ducks are like attractive wooden decoys.

Barber began collecting the carved wooden decoys in 1918 after finding one by accident near his Long Island boathouse.

At first the wooden decoys were simply a means to an end primitive carvings just convincing enough to lure Long Island's ducks and shorebirds into the sights of hunters.

Out on the right now, the boatman was still chopping angrily at the ice, and tossing out the wooden decoys in a hatred that showed in every move he made.

He then spread four dozen of his most lifelike wooden decoys, after which he released Todkill's fifteen live ones.

Onk-or from the first had spotted the bizarre assembly of wooden decoys and live trolls, and it was not long before he discorned the guns hiding among the rushes.

A dummy tank is a type of decoy, usually inflatable or wooden, intended to be mistaken by an enemy for a real tank.

He said the wooden decoys of World War II would no longer qualify, nor would the inflatable rubber dummies still sold by some companies.