Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dabchick

Dabchick (dab"chik`) , noun

[For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, compare Dipchick.]

(Zoology) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.