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dragoon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French dragon. Doublet of Draco and dragon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d????u?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
dragoon (plural dragoons)
- (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
- If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
Take all the remarkable people in history,
Rattle them off to a popular tune!
- If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
- A carrier of a dragon musket.
- A variety of pigeon.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarke to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
Translations
Further reading
- dragoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)
- (transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.
- Synonym: compel
- (transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.
Related terms
- dragooner
Translations
Anagrams
- gadroon
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drake
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?e?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
Etymology 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 *anadrek? (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at ennet.
Noun
drake (plural drakes)
- A male duck.
Derived terms
- duck on drake
- ducks and drakes
- sheldrake
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drak? (“dragon”), from Latin drac? (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n, “serpent, giant seafish”), from ???????? (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *der?-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.
Noun
drake (plural drakes)
- A mayfly used as fishing bait.
- (poetic) A dragon.
- 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria
- Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.
- 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria
- (historical) A small piece of artillery.
- A fiery meteor.
- c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- The moon’s my constant Mistresse
& the lowlie owle my morrowe.
The flaming Drake and y? Nightcrowe make
mee musicke to my sorrowe.
- The moon’s my constant Mistresse
- c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
Synonyms
- (mayfly): drake fly
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked
Afrikaans
Noun
drake
- plural of draak
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin drac? (“dragon”).
Noun
dr?ke m
- dragon, wyrm
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: draak
- Afrikaans: draak
- Limburgish: draagk, draogk
Further reading
- “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- drage
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n) and Old Norse dreki.
Noun
drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)
- a dragon
- a kite
References
- “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²dr??k?/
Noun
drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)
- a dragon
- a kite
- a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head
References
- “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drak?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dr???k?/
Noun
drake c
- dragon
- kite
- a male duck, drake
- a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax
Declension
Anagrams
- kader
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