Drake

means the “duck-king.” The old English word end means a duck, and end-ric becomes ʹdric, drake. Similarly the German tauber-rich is a male dove, and ganse-rich, a male goose, or gander.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.