CRAKES

Noun

crakes

plural of crake

Anagrams

• ackers, creaks, sacker, screak

Source: Wiktionary


CRAKE

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



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