noun

• A male duck.
• A mayfly used as fishing bait.
• (poetic) A dragon.
• (historical) A small piece of artillery.
• A fiery meteor.
• A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
• 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.
• A town in 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 locale in the United States.
• A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake.
• An unincorporated community in 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.