drake

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

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  • He was a fire-drake, not large for a dragon, but versatile, because he could traverse caves, even when they extended under water. —  Volk
  • The tone suggested that Lord Ardry must have a passion for some sort of gunplay Alive, yes Shoveler drake, that is. —  deer leap.htm
  • He was perhaps a quarter the mass of the drake, and his wings were inadequate for flight, and he had no fire. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • Stanley placed himself between the children and the drake, his green body quivering slightly, his ears set back against his skull. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • Stanley made another lunge at the tail, but this time the drake was ready. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
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  1. Middle English.
  2. Middle English, dragon, from Old English draca, from West Germanic *drako, from Latin dracō; see dragon.

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  1. from Middle English drake (= Low German drake), an abbrev., by apheresis, of *endrake or *andrake (not found in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon) (= Middle Low German āntdrake, anderik = Middle Dutch endtrick = Old High German anetrecho, antrecho, antrache, Middle High German antreche, antrache, antreich, German enterich, entrich, dial. antrach = Icelandic andriki (Haldorsen) (modern Icelandic andarsteggi; stegg, male: see steg, stag) = Danish andrik = Swedish andrakc), a drake, from Anglo-Saxon ened, œned, enid, Middle English ened, ende (displaced in modern English by duck: see duck) (= Middle Dutch ende, endte, Dutch eend = Middle Low German anet, ānt, plural ende, Low German aante = Old High German anut, anot, anit, Middle High German ant, ante, ente, German ente = Icelandic önd (and-) = Swedish Danish and, a duck, = Latin anas (anat-) (see Anas) = Greek νη̄σσ, σ1α (for *ανητια) = Old Bulgarian antui = Russian diminutive utka = Old Prussian antis = Lithuanian antis, a duck, = Sanskrit āti, a waterfowl), + -rīce, later -rike, -rake, a masculine suffix appearing also in G. gänserich, a gander (German ganser, gans = English goose), täubcrich (= Icelandic dūriki = Danish durik), cock-pigeon (German taube = Icelandic dūfa = Danish due = English dove), and in some proper names (as G. Friedrich (later ult. English Frederick) = Gothic (Moesogothic) Frithareiks; G. Dietrich = Dutch Derrijk: see derrick), from Gothic (Moesogothic) reiks, chief, mighty, ruling, = Anglo-Saxon rīce, mighty, etc., English rich: see rich and -rīc.
  2. from Middle English drake, a dragon, also a standard (see dragon), from Anglo-Saxon draca = Middle Dutch draeck, Dutch draak = Low German drake, Old High German tracho, dracho, Middle High German trache, German drache = Swedish drake = Danish drage = Icelandic dreki (see the Roman forms under dragon), from Latin draco, from Greek δράκων, a serpent: see dragon. Cf. fire-drake.
 

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