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  drake

  noun

  a male duck.
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  Drake

  noun

  Sir Francis, c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80.

drake

¹ American  

[drayk] / dreɪk /

noun

1. a male duck.

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drake ² American  

[drayk] / dreɪk /

noun

1. a small cannon, used especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

2. drake fly.

3. Archaic. a dragon.

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Drake ³ American  

[drayk] / dreɪk /

noun

1. Sir Francis, c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80.

2. Joseph Rodman 1795–1820, U.S. poet.

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drake ¹ British  

/ dreɪk /

noun

1. angling an artificial fly resembling a mayfly

2. history a small cannon

3. an obsolete word for dragon

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Drake ² British  

/ dreɪk /

noun

1. 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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drake ³ British  

/ dreɪk /

noun

1. the male of any duck

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Etymology

Origin of drake¹

1250–1300; Middle English; cognate with Low German drake, dialectal German drache; compare Old High German antrahho, anutrehho male duck

Origin of drake²

before 900; Middle English; Old English draca < Latin dracō dragon

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Example Sentences

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drake Drake

I changed to a green drake pattern, cast near where it had splashed and soon landed my first cutt of the trip.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022

Y’all thinking I pushed my album back because drake is comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

“If someone wants to be upset that drake made a great album, go for it, get mad all day lol!”

From Time ● Jul. 23, 2015

As Toronto music critic Rawiya Kameir tweeted, “lmaooooooooo at everyone who said drake has a ‘new accent’ obviously you’ve never met a toronto roadman before.”

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2015

Then he took from his waistcoat two peppercorns, and made the old drake swallow them, and tried him softly on his legs, where the leading gap in the hedge was.

From School Reading by Grades Sixth Year by James Baldwin

Tom Brady is coming back to Foxborough to call this one, and Drake Maye put together a solid game against Miami.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

“He needed money,” Drake said of the then-owner, a steakhouse-chain restaurateur who was looking to offload the home, asking $27 million.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

As Harry Kelsey, who calls Drake “the Queen’s pirate,” memorably puts it, Drake “stole so much and traveled so far that no one could remember anything quite like it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

He had a six-episode stint on Cheers playing Rebecca Howe's crush-worthy boss Evan Drake.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In celebration, Calder and Petra went to the Drake Hotel with Mrs. Sharpe for tea, and she told them both about deliveries that were soon to be made at each of their houses.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

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