crake

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. any of several short-billed Old World rails
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Crake \Crake\ (kr[=a]k), v. t. & i. [See Crack.]

1.To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. [1913 Webster]

2.To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Each man may crake of that which was his own.— Mir. for Mag.[1913 Webster]
Crake \Crake\, n. A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Crake \Crake\, n. [Cf. Icel. kr[=a]ka crow, kr[=a]kr raven, Sw. kr[*a]ka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.] (Zool.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake. [1913 Webster]
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