Pronunciations
-
/ˈkɹeɪk/
Noun
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
Verb
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to crake . Crake, crake, with all its might.
'How very disagreeable!' said Annie; 'perhaps the birds took it in turn to crake.'
More examples (1)
Of course, a corncrake, as its name suggests, likes to crake among the corn and hayfields, so that in fact you are unlikely ever to confuse it with the spotted crake, a bird to which dry land is almost anathema.
Verb
To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
Usage- Obsolete
- Examples
-
I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.
Each man may crake of that which was his own.
More examples (2)
With him I threatned to be quite, and great things did I crake.
And he that thus doth shal have smal pleasure in his awn rightwysnes, nor no gret lust to crake of his awn deserts or meryts.
Noun
A crack; a boast.
Usage- Obsolete
Noun
any of several short-billed Old World rails
- Broader terms