drake1
[dreyk]
- a male duck.Compare duck1(def 2).
Origin of drake1
1250–1300; Middle English; cognate with Low German drake, dialectal German drache; compare Old High German antrahho, anutrehho male duck
drake2
[dreyk]
- a small cannon, used especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- drake fly.
- Archaic. a dragon.
Origin of drake2
Drake
[dreyk]
- Sir Francis,c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80.
- Joseph Rod·man [rod-muh n] /ˈrɒd mən/, 1795–1820, U.S. poet.
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Examples from the Web for drake
Contemporary Examples
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Historical Examples
Where in his portrait gallery is the picture of a Drake, or even of a Raleigh?
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
Hawkins and Drake were as devout and humane as other men of their time.
Introductory American HistoryHenry Eldridge Bourne
Why did English sailors like Drake specially hate the Spaniards?
Introductory American HistoryHenry Eldridge Bourne
By this time a host of Spanish war-ships were on Drake's track.
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Drake obtained from it unknown quantities of gold and silver.
Introductory American HistoryHenry Eldridge Bourne
drake1
- the male of any duck
Word Origin
C13: perhaps from Low German; compare Middle Dutch andrake, Old High German antrahho
drake2
- angling an artificial fly resembling a mayfly
- history a small cannon
- an obsolete word for dragon
Word Origin
Old English draca, ultimately from Latin dracō dragon
Drake
- 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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Word Origin and History for drake
n.1
"male duck," c.1300, unrecorded in Old English but may have existed then, from West Germanic *drako (cf. Low German drake, second element of Old High German anutrehho, dialectal German Drache).
n.2
archaic for "dragon," from Old English draca "dragon, sea monster, huge serpent," from Proto-Germanic *drako (cf. Middle Dutch and Old Frisian drake, Dutch draak, Old High German trahho, German drache), an early borrowing from Latin draco (see dragon).
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