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Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..

Ringstraked :: Ringstraked (a.) Ring-streaked.

Goosander :: Goosander (n.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser..

Overraked :: Overraked (imp. & p. p.) of Overrak.

Berthing :: Berthing (n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake..

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Water Crake :: Water crake () The dipper.

Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..

Fraken :: Fraken (n.) A freckle.

Keelrake :: Keelrake (v. t.) Same as Keelhaul.

Water Crake :: Water crake () The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.

Land :: Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..

Rakeshame :: Rakeshame (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch..

Drake :: Drake (n.) The male of the duck kind.

Brake :: Brake (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern..

Rosella :: Rosella (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow..

Rake :: Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth..

Skieldrake :: Skieldrake (n.) The common European sheldrake.

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