[dreyk] 
| a male duck. Compare duck 1 (def. 2). |
[dreyk] | 1. | a small cannon, used esp. in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
| 2. | drake fly. |
| 3. | Archaic. a dragon. |
[dreyk] | 1. | Sir Francis, c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80. |
| 2. | Joseph Rod⋅man [rod-muhn] , 1795–1820, U.S. poet. |
| drake 1 (drāk) n. A male duck. [Middle English.] |
| drake 2 (drāk) n. A mayfly used as fishing bait. Also called drake fly. [Middle English, dragon, from Old English draca, from West Germanic *drako, from Latin dracō; see dragon.] |
| Drake (drāk) English naval hero and explorer who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577-1580) and was vice admiral of the fleet that destroyed the Spanish Armada (1588). |