drake

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A mayfly used as fishing bait.
• noun A male duck.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A. fabulous animal: same as dragon, 1.
• noun A battle-standard having the figure of a drake or dragon.
• noun A small piece of artillery. See dragon, 5.
• noun A species of fly, apparently the dragon-fly, used as a bait in angling. Also called drakefly
• noun A Middle English form of drawk.
• noun The male of the duck kind; specifically, the mallard.
• noun The silver shilling of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, having a martlet, popularly called a drake, as the mint-mark.
• noun A large flat stone on which the duck is placed in the game of duck on drake. See duck.
• noun Any one of several pseudo-neuropterous insects used as bait by fishermen, especially certain May-flies. Ephemera danica and E. vulgata are known to English fishermen as the green drake and the gray drake.
• noun A man-of-war of the Vikings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The male of the duck kind.
• noun The drake fly.
• noun a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.
• noun obsolete A dragon.
• noun obsolete A small piece of artillery.
• noun Prov. Eng. Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A mayfly used as fishing bait.
• noun A type of dragon.
• noun A male duck.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
• noun adult male of a wild or domestic duck