drake

• IPA^(key): /dɹeɪk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. (poetic) A dragon.
   • 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria:

     Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

     Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.

4. A fiery meteor.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The moon’s my constant Mistresse
     & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
     The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
     mee musicke to my sorrowe.

5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

• (mayfly): drake fly

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Kader, Radke, daker, darke, raked

drake

1. plural of draak

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).

drāke m

1. dragon, wyrm

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• Dutch: draak
  • Afrikaans: draak
• Limburgish: draagk, draogk
• West Flemish: droake

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈdraːk(ə)/

Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).

drake (plural drakes)

1. drake (male duck)

• English: drake
• Scots: drake

• “drāke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.

drake (plural drakes or draken)

1. drake (dragon)
2. (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
3. comet, shooting star

• English: drake

• “drāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Drage

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Drage (leketøy)

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• drage

From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Fabeldyret drake

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Drake i snor

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• drakje (pre-1901 (Landsmål))
• drakkji, dragje, draga (dialectal)

From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

• IPA^(key): /²draːçə/, /²draːkə/

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

• “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “drake” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From Old Swedish draki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

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drake c

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. a male duck, drake
   • 1887 February 5, “Ankskötsel [Duck Husbandry]”, in Wadstena Läns Tidning, number 14, page 2:

     För att få deras ägg fröade, fodras 1 drake till 2 ankor, eller 2 till 5, och drakarne måste ombytas åtminstone hvartannat år.

     To ensure their eggs are fertilized, one drake is required for two ducks, or two for five, and the drakes must be replaced at least every other year.

4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

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