Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drake"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drake \Drake\, n. [AS. draca dragon, L. draco. See {Dragon}.]
1. A dragon. [Obs.]
Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. --J. A.
Harrison
(Beowulf).
2. A small piece of artillery. [Obs.]
Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of
drakes, made them stagger. --Clarendon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drake \Drake\, n. [Cf. F. dravik, W. drewg, darnel, cockle,
etc.]
Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also
{drawk}, {dravick}, and {drank}. [Prov. Eng.] --Dr. Prior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drake \Drake\, n. [Akin to LG. drake, OHG. antrache, anetrecho,
G. enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak,
andrage, masc., and fr. AS. ened, fem., duck; akin to D.
eend, G. ente, Icel. ["o]nd, Dan. and, Sw. and, Lith. antis,
L. anas, Gr. ? (for ?), and perh. Skr. [=a]ti a water fowl.
????. In English the first part of the word was lost. The
ending is akin to E. rich. Cf. {Gulaund}.]
1. The male of the duck kind.
2. [Cf. Dragon fly, under {Dragon}.] The drake fly.
The drake will mount steeple height into the air.
--Walton.
{Drake fly}, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.
The dark drake fly, good in August. --Walton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Drake
n 1: English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to
circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the
Spanish Armada (1540-1596) [syn: {Drake}, {Francis Drake},
{Sir Francis Drake}]
2: adult male of a wild or domestic duck
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