Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mayfly used as fishing bait.
- noun A male duck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
drawk . - noun The male of the duck kind; specifically, the mallard.
- noun The silver shilling of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, having a martlet, popularly called a drake, as the mint-mark.
- noun A large flat stone on which the duck is placed in the game of duck on drake. See
duck . - noun A. fabulous animal: same as
dragon , 1. - noun A battle-standard having the figure of a drake or dragon.
- noun A small piece of artillery. See
dragon , 5. - noun A species of fly, apparently the dragon-fly, used as a bait in angling. Also called
drakefly - noun Any one of several pseudo-neuropterous insects used as bait by fishermen, especially certain May-flies. Ephemera danica and E. vulgata are known to English fishermen as the green drake and the gray drake.
- noun A man-of-war of the Vikings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also
drawk ,dravick , anddrank . - noun The male of the duck kind.
- noun The drake fly.
- noun a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.
- noun obsolete A dragon.
- noun obsolete A small piece of artillery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mayfly used as fishing bait. - noun A type of
dragon . - noun A
male duck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
- noun adult male of a wild or domestic duck
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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On the Wing With its long tail extension, or pin, the drake is rarely mistaken for another bird, but "sprigtails" can be confused with wigeon.
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On the Wing With its long tail extension, or pin, the drake is rarely mistaken for another bird, but "sprigtails" can be confused with wigeon.
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It may be that their movements are the results of mere fussiness, but more likely they are prompted by a desire to display their satin-like breast-feathers, for every drake is something of a dandy.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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The drake will be the heaviest one, with a belly parallel to the ground.
28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996
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The drake is a very handsome bird, a large portion of his plumage being white; the hen is smaller, and brown in colour.
A Girl's Ride in Iceland George Harley 1862
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My drake is a native of these parts; he's not of my race; but I am not proud on that account.
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My drake is a native of these parts, he's not of my race; but for all that I'm not proud!
What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840
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