βασκάς
From LSJ
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
English (LSJ)
(or -ᾶς), άδος, ἡ, a kind of
A duck, Ar.Av.885; cf. βοσκάς, φασκάς.
German (Pape)
[Seite 438] ὁ, eine Entenart, Ar. Av. 885; Arist. H. A. 8, 3.