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Answer for the clue "English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596) ", 5 letters:
drake

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"male duck," c.1300, unrecorded in Old English but may have existed then, from West Germanic *drako (cognates: Low German drake , second element of Old High German anutrehho , dialectal German Drache ).

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Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986), known professionally as Drake , is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Drake initially gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the ...

Usage examples of drake.

Tim had always found himself especially attuned to the deserted charms of Candie Gardens in winter, enjoying the bare traceries of the trees and the widened harbour view, the few points of colour against the monochrome background - the red and pink of the camellias near the top gate, the hanging yellow bells of the winter-flowering abutilon with their red clappers, even the iridescence of the mallard drake circling the largest of the ponds with his speckled mate.

David Drake contributed an Introduction to the former, while the final volume featured a reprint Introduction by the late Karl Edward Wagner and an Afterword by Gerald W.

In his afterword, Dave Drake will have a lot more to say about this story.

When all hands were accounted for, Drake ordered the ship turned to align the photon drive with the direction of flight.

Great-grandfather himself who proposed to Drake the use of devil ships against the Spanish Armada as it lay anchored in Calais Roads, may it not?

I knew it was going to be hard getting the aquamanile from Drake, but the look in his eye told me it was going to be harder than I thought.

Drake would hardly be likely to leave the aquamanile lying around where I could easily get at it.

I kept a firm hold on the aquamanile as Drake pulled me tighter against him.

Drake mention something about the aquamanile being one of a set of three?

The most fervent patriot must admit that the early voyages of Drake were, to put it mildly, of a buccaneering kind, although his late voyages were more nearly akin to privateering cruises than piracy.

Certain it is, that when British sea-rovers like Drake and Frobisher, captured Spanish galleons on the high seas, and on searching their holds for treasure, found bags of cacao, they flung them overboard in scorn.

Lansing Drake, who had landed with Dolce on his right and Charlene on his left.

Greek and Lithuanian household mythology the dragon or drake has become an ogre, a gigantic man with few of the dracontine attributes remaining.

Runner drolly, as he unwrapped the parcel, and handed Drake its contents.

Drake could see to treat wounds, and everyone had been accounted for, they discovered that Regin and Filix had been killed by more of the things.