1.
[syn: Drake, Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake]
2. adult male of a wild or domestic duck;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drake \Drake\ (dr[=a]k), n. [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. ["o]nd, Dan. and, Sw. and, Lith.
antis, L. anas, Gr. ? (for ?), and perh. Skr. [=a]ti a water
fowl. [root]207. In English the first part of the word was
lost. The ending is akin to E. rich. Cf. Gulaund.]
1. The male of the duck kind.
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2. [Cf. Dragon fly, under Dragon.] The drake fly.
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The drake will mount steeple height into the air.
--Walton.
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Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.
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The dark drake fly, good in August. --Walton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drake \Drake\, n. [AS. draca dragon, L. draco. See Dragon.]
1. A dragon. [Obs.]
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Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. --J. A.
Harrison
(Beowulf).
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2. A small piece of artillery. [Obs.]
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Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of
drakes, made them stagger. --Clarendon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drake \Drake\, n. [Cf. F. dravik, W. drewg, darnel, cockle,
etc.]
Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also
drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] --Dr. Prior.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Drake
n 1: English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman
to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the
Spanish Armada (1540-1596) [syn: Drake, Francis Drake,
Sir Francis Drake]
2: adult male of a wild or domestic duck
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "drake":
Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, billy,
billy goat, boar, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bubbly-jock, buck,
bull, bullock, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken,
chicky, cock, cockerel, dog, domestic fowl, duck, duckling,
dunghill fowl, entire, entire horse, fowl, fryer, game fowl,
gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl,
guinea hen, hart, he-goat, hen, hen turkey, partlet, peacock,
poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, ram, roaster, rooster,
setting hen, spring chicken, stag, stallion, steer,
stewing chicken, stot, stud, studhorse, tom, tom turkey, tomcat,
top cow, top horse, tup, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock,
wether
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Drake, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 322
Housing Units (2000): 201
Land area (2000): 1.973850 sq. miles (5.112249 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.047390 sq. miles (0.122740 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.021240 sq. miles (5.234989 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20300
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.923793 N, 100.371284 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58736
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Drake, ND
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