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firedrake

noun

Etymology

From Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”), equivalent to fire + drake.

  1. inherited from fȳrdraca
  2. inherited from firdrake

Definitions

  1. A fire-breathing dragon.

    • […] the incensed firedrake, in revenge, flies all over the land, vomiting fire and smoke in every direction, […]
    • Then was the folk-scather for the third of times yet, The fierce fire-drake, all mindful of feud;

  2. A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket

  3. A kind of firework

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A worker at a furnace or fire

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