Thesaurus: crake
To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
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Definitions
- v. t. & i. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
- v. t. & i. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
- n. A boast. See Crack, n.
- n. Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
- n. any of several short-billed Old World rails
- n. any of several short-billed Old World rails