drake
IPA: drˈeɪk
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.
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Examples of "drake" in Sentences
- Drake and Josh are then disqualified.
- Drake Bell is an actor and a musician.
- Drake's hobbies include lapidary and orchid cultivation.
- Clary represented Drake just prior to Drake's retirement.
- The same goes for the rambling monologue of Stephen Drake.
- The drake's call is a weak crooning, and the female's a harsh croak.
- Next to the church is an unremarkable manor house of the Drake family.
- He had owed Drake, one of the members of the team, a bottle of scotch.
- Drake took part in the ceremonial turning of the first sod in December 1590.
- By the latter half of the eighteenth century the Drakes owned most of the town.