duck

Duck! There's a branch falling off the tree!

As some raw youth in country bred,

To arms by thirst of honour led,

When at a skirmish first he hears

The bullets whistling round his ears,

Will duck his head aside

Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.

[…]In Tiber ducking thrice, by break of day[…]

The Learned pate / Duckes to the Golden Foole.

Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.

The music is ducked under the voice.

I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag?