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Crake   Listen
verb
Crake  v. t. & v. i.  
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."





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"Crake" Quotes from Famous Books



... you have caused me! I can't tell any one what you've made me suffer, and must just bear it in silence. It was God who sent Braesig to my help." Suddenly Braesig whispered in great excitement, his voice sounding like the distant cry of a corn-crake: "Mrs. Behrens, draw yourself out till you're as long as Lewerenz's child;[9] make yourself as thin as you possibly can, and put on a pretty air of confusion, for I see him coming over the crest of the hill. His figure stands out clearly against ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various


Words linked to "Crake" :   spotted crake, land rail, rail, corncrake, Crex crex, Porzana porzana


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