Drake

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A male duck.
  • n. A mayfly used as fishing bait. Also called drake fly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A male duck.
  • n. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
  • n. A type of dragon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The male of the duck kind.
  • n. The drake fly.
  • n. A dragon.
  • n. A small piece of artillery.
  • n. Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The male of the duck kind; specifically, the mallard.
  • n. The silver shilling of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, having a martlet, popularly called a drake, as the mint-mark.
  • n. A large flat stone on which the duck is placed in the game of duck on drake. See duck.
  • n. A. fabulous animal: same as dragon, 1.
  • n. A battle-standard having the figure of a drake or dragon.
  • n. A small piece of artillery. See dragon, 5.
  • n. A species of fly, apparently the dragon-fly, used as a bait in angling. Also called drakefly
  • n. A Middle English form of drawk.
  • 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.
  • n. A man-of-war of the Vikings.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
  • n. adult male of a wild or domestic duck
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    full admiral    navigator    admiral    duck   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    drawk    dravick    drank   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dragon   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ache    Blake    Haik    Jake    Lake    Snake    ache    ake    awake    bake   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    czarina    Satsuma    czar    canvasback    bloodhound    griffon    sehlat    prolearn    triteera    mallard