sea drake

English

Noun

sea drake (plural sea drakes)

(fantasy) A sea dragon.
- 1834 July, “The National Fairy Mythology of England”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 10, page 53:
  When, after the death of the son, Beowulf and his companions pursued the mother into her retreat, they found the water full of sea-drakes and serpents (wyrm-cynnes fela), and nicers lying on the banks.
- 2011, Jason Rice, ‎Brent Evanger, Kingdoms of Legend: Knights of France, page 23:
  Sea drakes are also known to travel up the Rhone river to spawn in Lake Geneva, creating a hazard for shipping.
- 2020, Natalie Grey, Saira & the Dragon's Egg:
  The sea drake uncoiled from the palace as they approached .
- 2024, Hagure Metabo, A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even:
  The monster, a subspecies of dragon, was a sea drake.
(UK) The pewit gull, or sea cormorant (Corvus marinus)
- 2024, David Marcum, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XLIV:
  The gardener found birds frozen to their branches, yet at the base of the same tree, a flock of sea-drakes and hens were perfectly unharmed!
(US) A male eider.
- 1832, The New-England Magazine - Volume 2, page 103:
  Another of our regular visiters from the North is the EIDER DUCK , which furnishes the fine down that is so valuable an article of commerce. On our coast this bird is commonly known by the name of the SEA DRAKE.
- 1862, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, page 240:
  They are universally known as "Sea-ducks," the males being always distinguished as "Sea-drakes."
- 1963, The Narragansett Naturalist - Volumes 6-9, page 5:
  That is why, when looking for the cock-a-wee, the harlequin, or any of the big sea drakes, I may sometimes, like Wordsworth, " Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.