crake
(noun) any of several short-billed Old World rails
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Crake
Alternative letter-case form of crake
• Acker, acker, creak
crake (plural crakes)
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)
(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
crake (plural crakes)
(obsolete) A crack; a boast.
• Acker, acker, creak
Source: Wiktionary
Crake (krk), v. t. & i. Etym: [See Crack.]
1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag.
Crake, n.
Definition: A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.
Crake, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. kr crow, kr raven, Sw. kr, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
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