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Webster 1913 Edition

Crake

Crake

(krāk)
,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[See
Crack
.]
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.
Mir. for Mag.

Crake

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

Crake

,
Noun.
[Cf. Icel.
krāka
crow,
krākr
raven, Sw.
kråka
, Dan.
krage
; perh. of imitative origin. Cf.
Crow
.]
(Zool.)
Any species or rail of the genera
Crex
and
Porzana
; – so called from its singular cry. See
Corncrake
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crake

CRAKE

,
Noun.
A boast. [See Crack.]

CRAKE

,
Noun.
The corn-crake, a migratory fowl, is a species of the rail, Rallus, found among grass, corn, broom or furze. Its cry is very singular, crek, crek, and is imitated by rubbing the blade of a knife on an indented bone, by which it may be decoyed into a net.

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