| 单词 | death drake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath drake death drake n. an adult male of the common mayfly Ephemera vulgata, which is dark in colour; (also) an artificial fly made in imitation of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Ephemeroptera > family Ephemeridae > ephemera vulgata green drake1676 death drake1766 1766 R. Brookes Art of Angling (new ed.) 77 Death-drake... Taken chiefly in an Evening, when the May-fly is almost gone. 1834 New Sporting Mag. Aug. 249/2 May.—All the flies and hackles enumerated. In addition to these we have: the greendrake,..the death drake, the yellow miller or owl-fly. 1866 I. E. B. Cox Facts & Useful Hints Fishing & Shooting 4 The Death Drake.—Body, ostrich herl mixed with peacock's, silver twist, black hackle; wing, of the dark copper feather of a mallard. 1898 Fishing Gaz. 21 May 368/1 If you have..a good supply of Ogden's ‘Gems’.., with a few of his Death Drakes (winged and hackled), you will be able to kill trout on any water in the world where they take the natural May Fly. 1972 J. McDonald Quill Gordon v. 53 The death drake and the coffin fly, with their common paleness, form another verbal bond between the green drakes of Britain-Ireland and the United States. But the (false) legend of the death drake has disappeared. < as lemmas |
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