CREAK

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.

2.
v.

To produce a creaking sound with. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. Shak.

3.
n.

Thew sound produced by anuthing that creaks; a creaking. Roget.


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