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Firedrake

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fire-breathing dragon.

    "[…] the incensed firedrake, in revenge, flies all over the land, vomiting fire and smoke in every direction, […]"

  2. 2
    a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings wordnet
  3. 3
    A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
  4. 4
    A kind of firework
  5. 5
    A worker at a furnace or fire figuratively, poetic

Etymology

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

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