firedrake

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17
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17
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9

Definition of firedrake

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A fire-breathing dragon.
    “[…] the incensed firedrake, in revenge, flies all over the land, vomiting fire and smoke in every direction, […]”
    “Then was the folk-scather for the third of times yet, The fierce fire-drake, all mindful of feud;”
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noun

  1. A fire-breathing dragon.
    “[…] the incensed firedrake, in revenge, flies all over the land, vomiting fire and smoke in every direction, […]”
    “Then was the folk-scather for the third of times yet, The fierce fire-drake, all mindful of feud;”
  2. A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
  3. A kind of firework
  4. (figuratively, poetic)A worker at a furnace or fire

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Etymology

From Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”), equivalent to fire + drake.

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