Definitions for "Dabchick"
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.
small European grebe
a grebe or loon, and a dace is, oops, a cyprinid fish (carp)