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drake

noun
/dɹeɪk/

Etymology

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

  1. derived from δράκων
  2. derived from dracō
  3. derived from *drakō✻
  4. inherited from draca
  5. inherited from drake — “dragon; Satan”

Definitions

  1. A male duck (animal).

    • A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.

  2. dragon

    • Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.

  3. beaked galley, or Viking warship

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. small piece of artillery

      • Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.

    2. a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)

      • The moon’s my constant Mistresse & the lowlie owle my morrowe. The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make

    3. mayfly

    4. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English…

      An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.

    5. An Irish surname, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake.

    6. A male given name transferred from the surname.

      • Drake was not at all what I'd anticipated. His macho soap opera name had put me in mind of aristocrats or oversexed mallards.

    7. A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

    8. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

    9. A ward of Plymouth, Devon, England

      A ward of Plymouth, Devon, England; named for aqueduct Drake's Leat, itself for Francis Drake, Mayor of Plymouth at the time of its construction.

    10. A locale in the United States.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA