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crake
/ˈkɹeɪk/
noun 3verb 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
spotted
VERB + CRAKE
begins, likes, suggests, turn
CRAKE + NOUN
', bird, corn, cr
PREP.
among, in, with
Definitions
noun
1
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
verb
1
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
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.'
verb
1
To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
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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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 . Cr
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'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 almos
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I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.
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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.
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