About The Word Crake
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Crake
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What's The Definition Of Crake?
[n] any of several short-billed Old World rails
Synonyms | Synonyms for Crake: Related Terms | Find terms related to Crake: See Also | corncrake | Crex crex | land rail | Porzana porzana | rail | spotted crake Crake In Webster's Dictionary \Crake\ (kr[=a]k), v. t. & i. [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. A boast. See {Crack}, n. [Obs.] --Spenser. \Crake\, n. [Cf. Icel. kr[=a]ka crow, kr[=a]kr raven, Sw. kr[*a]ka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crow}.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species or rail of the genera {Crex} and {Porzana}; -- so called from its singular cry. See {Corncrake}. |
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