drake

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A male duck.
2. n. A mayfly used as fishing bait. Also called drake fly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The male of the duck kind; specifically, the mallard.
2. n. The silver shilling of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, having a martlet, popularly called a drake, as the mint-mark. It is commonly supposed that the mark is in allusion to Sir Francis Drake, the famous admiral, but it is really the armorial cognizance of Sir Richard Martin, who was made warden of the mint in the fourteenth year of Elizabeth's reign.
3. n. A large flat stone on which the duck is placed in the game of duck on drake. See duck.
4. n. A. fabulous animal: same as dragon, 1.
5. n. A battle-standard having the figure of a drake or dragon.
6. n. A small piece of artillery. See dragon, 5.
7. n. A species of fly, apparently the dragon-fly, used as a bait in angling. Also called drakefly
8. n. A Middle English form of drawk.
9. n. Any one of several pseudo-neuropterous insects used as bait by fishermen, especially certain May-flies. Ephemera danica and E. vulgata are known to English fishermen as the green drake and the gray drake.
10. n. A man-of-war of the Vikings.

Wiktionary

1. n. A male duck.
2. n. A mayfly used as fishing bait; also called a drake fly.
3. n. A type of dragon.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The male of the duck kind.
2. n. The drake fly.
3. n. A dragon.
4. n. A small piece of artillery.
5. n. Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
2. n. adult male of a wild or domestic duck