Drake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim dragon

   “Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.”

3. isim lesser draconic creature
4. isim beaked galley, or Viking warship
5. isim small piece of artillery

   “Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.”

6. isim 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. isim mayfly
8. isim a mayfly used as fishing bait
9. özel isim An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
10. özel isim Francis Drake (1540-1596), English sea captain, pirate, and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
11. özel isim An Irish surname, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake.
12. özel isim 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.”

13. özel isim A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
14. özel isim A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
15. özel isim 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.
16. özel isim A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake.
17. özel isim An unincorporated community in Yavapai County, Arizona.
18. özel isim An unincorporated community in Colorado.
19. özel isim An unincorporated community in Illinois.
20. özel isim An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
21. özel isim An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for Missouri statesman Charles D. Drake.
22. özel isim An unincorporated community in South Carolina.