DRAKE FLY Definition & Meaning

drake fly

noun

Angling.

mayfly ( def 2 ).

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Origin of drake fly¹

1400–50; perhaps late Middle English drake flye artificial fly dressed with drake feathers

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The twelfth is the dark drake- fly, good in August: the body made with black wool, lapt about with black silk; his wings are made with the mail of the black drake, with a black head.

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