Drake

Definition of Drake

Pronunciation: drāk
n.1.The male of the duck kind.
2.The drake fly.
The drake will mount steeple height into the air.
- Walton.
Drake fly
a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.
The dark drake fly, good in August.
- Walton.
1.A dragon.
Beowulf resolves to kill the drake.
- J. A. Harrison (Beowulf).
2.A small piece of artillery.
Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
- Clarendon.
1.Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; - called also drawk, dravick, and drank.

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Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, billy, billy goat, boar, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dog, domestic fowl, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, entire, entire horse, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hart, he-goat, hen, hen turkey, partlet, peacock, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, ram, roaster, rooster, setting hen, spring chicken, stag, stallion, steer, stewing chicken, stot, stud, studhorse, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, wether
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