crake
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- any of several short-billed Old World railsType of railKinds corncrake, spotted crake
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Crake (krāk), transitive & intransitive verb
Origin: See Crack.
1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. obsolete
Each man may crake of that which was his own.— Mirror for Magistrates
Crake noun
A boast. See Crack, noun obsolete Edmund Spenser
Crake noun
Origin: Cf. Icel. krāka crow, krākr raven, Sw. kråka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.
Zoology Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; — so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54