crake — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

Verbo

1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

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   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.'

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   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.

Verbo

1. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

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   • obsoleto

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   I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.

   Each man may crake of that which was his own.

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   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.

Sostantivo

1. A crack; a boast.

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   • obsoleto

Sostantivo

1. any of several short-billed Old World rails

   Termini più generali

   rail