crake : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crake	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for crake
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crake n any of several short-billed Old World rails
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crake \Crake\ (kr[amac]k), v. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crake \Crake\, n. A boast. See {Crack}, n. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crake \Crake\, n. [Cf. Icel. kr[amac]ka crow, kr[amac]kr raven, Sw. kr[aring]ka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crow}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species or rail of the genera {Crex} and {Porzana}; -- so called from its singular cry. See {Corncrake}.