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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Drake·stone n. A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.
    Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone.   --De Quincey.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ducks and drakes
      n : a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of
          calm water