drake fly
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of drake fly
1400–50; perhaps late Middle English drake flye artificial fly dressed with drake feathers
Example Sentences
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The twelfth is the dark drake- fly, good in August: the body made with black wool, lapt about with black silk; his wings are made with the mail of the black drake, with a black head.
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