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 ennet.

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

• duck on drake
• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

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

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• 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

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

 

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From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.

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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From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).

• IPA^(key): /²drɑːkə/

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

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drake c

1. dragon
2. kite
3. a male duck, drake
4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

• kader