/dɹeɪk/
OriginFrom Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.
- 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.”
- poeticdragon
“Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.”
- poeticlesser draconic creature
- beaked galley, or Viking warship
- historicalsmall piece of artillery
“Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.”
- 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”
- mayfly
- a mayfly used as fishing bait
- An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
- Francis Drake (1540-1596), English sea captain, pirate, and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
- An Irish surname, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake.
- 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.”
- A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A ward of Plymouth, Devon, England; named for aqueduct Drake's Leat, itself for Francis Drake, Mayor of Plymouth at the time of its construction.
- A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake.
- An unincorporated community in Yavapai County, Arizona.
- An unincorporated community in Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for Missouri statesman Charles D. Drake.
- An unincorporated community in South Carolina.
Formsdrakes(plural)