CRAKE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

2.
v.

To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag.

3.
n.

A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

4.
n.

Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.


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