(drāk) noun
1. A male duck.
2. A flat stone used in the game of ducks and drakes. [Cf. dial. G draak]

(drāk) noun
1. A mayfly, used as bait in angling: also drake′fly′.
2. A small brass cannon of the 17th and 18th centuries.
3. Obs. A dragon, or an ancient standard bearing a dragon for its emblem. [OE draca <L draco. See DRAGON.]
DRAKE (def. 1)

(drāk), Sir Francis,
1540–96, English admiral and circumnavigator of the globe.