crake

• Crake

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹeɪk/

From Old Norse kráka (“crow”), itself onomatopoeic.

crake (plural crakes)

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

• Baillon's crake
• brown crake
• Colombian crake
• corncrake
• (as syn. of corncrake) cracker
• water crake

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

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

See crack

crake (plural crakes)

1. (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

1. (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
   • The Mirror for Magistrates

     Each man may crake of that which was his own.

• Acker, acker, creak