firedrake
A fire-breathing dragon.
Noun
- A fire-breathing dragon.
- […] the incensed firedrake, in revenge, flies all over the land, vomiting fire and smoke in every direction, […] - 1913, Helene A. Guerber, The Book of the Epic:
- Then was the folk-scather for the third of times yet, The fierce fire-drake, all mindful of feud; - 1895, W Morris, AJ Wyatt (trans.), The Tale of Beowulf (2689):
- A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
- A kind of firework
- A worker at a furnace or fire
Origin
From Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”), equivalent to fire + drake.