Drake /(drāk)/

Drake

n.
  1. The male of the duck kind.
  2. The drake fly.
    The drake will mount steeple height into the air.
    — Walton.
    The dark drake fly, good in August.
    — Walton.

Phrases & Compounds

Drake fly
a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.

Drake

n.
  1. A dragon. [Obs.]
    Beowulf resolves to kill the drake.
    — J. A. Harrison (Beowulf).
  2. A small piece of artillery. [Obs.]
    Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.

Drake

n.
  1. Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.]