drake

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A male duck (animal).
    — A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.
  2. dragon poetic
    — Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.
  3. dragon; lesser draconic creature poetic
  4. beaked galley, or Viking warship
  5. small piece of artillery historical
    — Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
  6. 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
  7. mayfly
  8. mayfly; a mayfly used as fishing bait

词形变化

drakes plural drakes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
earthdrake eastern green drake firedrake green drake icedrake nithedrake proto-drake seadrake sea drake

词源

词源 1
From 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.
词源 2
From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.
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