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drake
/dɹeɪk/
noun 6name 5
Collocations
4ADJ.
english, flaming, lay, little, living, released, ugly
VERB + DRAKE
followed, gain
DRAKE + NOUN
nightcrowe, y
PREP.
between, during, from
Definitions
noun
1
A male duck.
A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.
noun
1
dragon
Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.
2
dragon
3
beaked galley, or Viking warship
4
small piece of artillery
Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
5
a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)
The moon’s my constant Mistresse & the lowlie owle my morrowe. The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
name
1
An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
2
An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
3
An Irish surname, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake.
4
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Drake was not at all what I'd anticipated. His macho soap opera name had put me in mind of aristocrats or oversexed mallards.
5
A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.
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Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.
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Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
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The moon’s my constant Mistresse & the lowlie owle my morrowe. The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
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Drake was not at all what I'd anticipated. His macho soap opera name had put me in mind of aristocrats or oversexed mallards.
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Perry decided to gain information from Drake.
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