Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
2. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
3. (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
4. (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

Example Sentences

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.'

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 almost anathema.

I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.

Each man may crake of that which was his own.

With him I threatned to be quite, and great things did I crake.

And he that thus doth shal have smal pleasure in his awn rightwysnes, nor no gret lust to crake of his awn deserts or meryts.

Word Forms

• crakes
• Crake
• craking
• craked

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When Should You Use Crake?

Use crake when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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