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drake

[dreyk]

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noun

a male duck. Compare duck¹ (def. 2).

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English; cognate with Low German drake, dialectal German drache; compare Old High German antrahho, anutrehho male duck

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noun

a small cannon, used especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

drake fly.

Archaic. a dragon.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English draca < Latin dracō dragon

noun

Sir Francis, c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80.

Joseph Rod·man

[rod-muhn] , 1795–1820, U.S. poet.

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drake¹ (dreɪk)

—n
	the male of any duck

[C13: perhaps from Low German; compare Middle Dutch andrake, Old High German antrahho]

drake² (dreɪk)

—n
1.	angling an artificial fly resembling a mayfly
2.	history a small cannon
3.	an obsolete word for dragon

[Old English draca, ultimately from Latin dracōdragon]

Drake (dreɪk)

—n
	Sir Francis. ?1540--96, English navigator and buccaneer, the first Englishman to sail around the world (1577--80). He commanded a fleet against the Spanish Armada (1588) and contributed greatly to its defeat

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drake

"male duck," c.1300, unrecorded in O.E. but may have existed there, from W.Gmc. *drako.

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drake

archaic for "dragon," from O.E. draca, from P.Gmc. *drako (see dragon).

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