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–noun
any of several short-billed rails, esp. the corn crake.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME < ON krākr, krāki crow]
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n.   Any of several short-billed birds of the family Rallidae, such as the corncrake.


[Middle English, crow, probably from Old Norse krāka; see gerə-2 in Indo-European roots.]

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crake

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any of several short-billed Old World rails 

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Crake

Crack\ (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked (kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.]

1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak.

He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. --Roscommon.

3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. --B. Jonson.

5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low]

To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents.

To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang]

To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]

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Crake

Crake\ (kr[=a]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.

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Crake

Crake\, n. A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] --Spenser.

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