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death 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.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Ephemeroptera > family Ephemeridae > ephemera vulgata
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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.
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