drake : Idioms & Phrases
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Drake fly
- a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.
Webster 1913
ducks and drakes
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noun a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water
WordNet
francis drake
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noun English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
Francis Drake; Drake.
WordNet
sea drake
Sea" drake`
Definitions
(Zoöl.) The pewit gull.
Webster 1913
sir francis drake
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noun English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
Francis Drake; Drake.
WordNet
To make ducks and drakes
- to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets
= skipping stones ; hence:
Webster 1913
To play at ducks and drakes
- with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably.
Webster 1913
Wild drake
(Zoöl.) the mallard.
Webster 1913
wood drake
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noun male wood duck
