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Crake   Listen
verb
Crake  v. t. & v. i.  
1.
To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2.
To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. (Obs.) "Each man may crake of that which was his own."





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"Crake" Quotes from Famous Books



... this year. Ho, there! good companions that you are, come down and let me shoot at you. 'Crake! crake!' that is all you say—away up there in the white clouds, laughing at me, I suppose, and making fun of my bow. Listen! they are answering me from the clouds! I wish I could fly up in the clouds! Travelling, as I live, away off to the south!—leaving us to go ...
— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke
... bird, a big bird. Dear So-so, can you see him? I can't, because of the sun. What a queer noise he makes. Crake! crake! Oh, I can see him now! He is not flying, he is running, and he has gone into the corn. I do wish I were in the corn, I would catch him, and ...
— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... likeness in shape, markings and plumage to an old acquaintance—the shy and rather rare "banana-bird" of some of the Polynesian and Melanesian Islands. I had frequently when in Ireland heard at night, during the summer months, the repeated and harsh "crake, crake," of many of these birds, issuing from the fields of growing corn, and was very curious to see one, for the unmelodious cry was exactly like that of the kili vao, or "banana-bird" of the Pacific Islands. And when I saw ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke


Words linked to "Crake" :   Crex crex, rail, corncrake, Porzana porzana, spotted crake, land rail


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