Drake
Drake (drāk) , noun
[Akin to LG. drake, Old High German antrache, anetrecho, German enterich, Icelandic andriki, Danish andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc., and from Anglo-Saxon ened, fem., duck; akin to Dutch eend, German ente, Icelandic ond, Danish and, Swedish and, Lithuanian antis, Latin anas, Greek {not transcribed} (for {not transcribed}), and perh. Sanskrit āti a water fowl. r207. In English the first part of the word was lost. The ending is akin to English rich. Compare Gulaund.]
1.
The male of the duck kind.
2.
The drake fly.
The drake will mount steeple height into the air.
The dark drake fly, good in August.
Collocations (1)
Drake fly , a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.
Drake , noun
[Anglo-Saxon draca dragon, Latin draco. See Dragon.]
1.
A dragon. [Obsolete]
Beowulf resolves to kill the drake.
2.
A small piece of artillery. [Obsolete]
Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
Drake , noun
[Compare French dravik, Welsh drewg, darnel, cockle, etc.]
Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Provincial English] — Dr. Prior