drake

FREQ #5202

n. 公鸭, 蜉蝣类

发音

US /dɹeɪk/

词形变化

drakes 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A male duck.

  2. 1.

    dragon

    诗歌
  3. 2.

    dragon

    lesser draconic creature

    诗歌
  4. 3.

    beaked galley, or Viking warship

  5. 4.

    small piece of artillery

    历史
  6. 5.

    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. 6.

    mayfly

  8. 7.

    mayfly

    a mayfly used as fishing bait

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

duck

相关短语

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词源

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.

来源：wiktionary