DRAKE

drake

(noun) adult male of a wild or domestic duck

Drake, Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake

(noun) English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Drake

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

Francis Drake (1540-1596), English sea captain, pirate, and explorer of the Elizabethan era.

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

A male given name from surnames.

A town in New South Wales, Australia.

A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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

A locale in United States.

A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake.

An unincorporated community in Arizona.

An unincorporated community in Colorado.

An unincorporated community in Illinois.

An unincorporated community in Kentucky.

An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for Missouri statesman Charles D. Drake.

An unincorporated community in South Carolina.

Anagrams

• Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked

Etymology 1

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

A male duck.

Etymology 2

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

A mayfly used as fishing bait.

(poetic) A dragon.

(historical) A small piece of artillery.

A fiery meteor.

A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

Synonyms

• (mayfly): drake fly

Anagrams

• Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked

Source: Wiktionary

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Drake, n. Etym: [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. önd, Dan. and, Sw. and, Lith. antis, L. anas, Gr. ati a water fowl. rich. Cf. Gulaund.]

1. The male of the duck kind.

2. Etym: [Cf. Dragon fly, under Dragon.]

Definition: 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.

Drake, n. Etym: [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.

Drake, n. Etym: [Cf. F. dravik, W. drewg, darnel, cockle, etc.]

Definition: Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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