![]() ![]() ![]() Several families of Drake bear as arms the wyvern, or two-legged dragon and it is worthy of remark that in giving to various pieces of cannon the names of monsters and animals of prey, that of ' drake' was assigned to a peculiar species of gun, as those of caliver, basilisk, culverin, fawconet, saker-all appellations of serpents and rapacious birds-were to others. Le Dragun, the Anglo-Norman form, occurs in the Hundredorum Rolls, but the nearest approach to this that I have seen in modem times is Drago, a name which existed at Ely about a century since. The name is "not from the waterfowl, but from Anglo-Saxon draca (Latin draco,) a dragon. The surname Dredge is derived from the Old English word draca or from the Old Danish word draki, which both mean dragon. It was a name for a person who was a a fierce, powerful person. ![]() Dredge is an ancient name dating from the times of the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. ![]()
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