firedrake
nounEtymology From Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”), equivalent to fire + drake.
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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):
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A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
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A kind of firework
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Figuratively, Poetic A worker at a furnace or fire
- Related terms
- earthdrake, seadrake