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firedrake en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A fire-breathing dragon.
   • […] the incensed firedrake, in revenge, flies all over the land, vomiting fire and smoke in every direction, […] 1913, Helene A. Guerber, The Book of the Epic:
   • Then was the folk-scather for the third of times yet, The fierce fire-drake, all mindful of feud; 1895, W Morris, AJ Wyatt (trans.), The Tale of Beowulf (2689):
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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Relateds

seadrake · earthdrake