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crake
[ kreyk ]
noun
- any of several short-billed rails, especially the corn crake.
crake
/ kreɪk /
noun
- zoology any of several rails that occur in the Old World, such as the corncrake and the spotted crake
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Origin of crake1
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Example Sentences
If it is a young man, they should start with Oryx and Crake.
Accepting the proffered service, the body was put on the mysterious animal's back, which carried it to Crake Minster.
Then a nightingale began to give forth its long liquid gurgling; and a corn-crake churred in the young wheat.
Two sounds are and have been heard all night—the ceaseless call of the crake and the not less ceaseless song of the sedge-bird.
In the level meadow from among the tall grasses and white-flowering wild parsley a landrail called 'crake, crake,' ceaselessly.
“Creek—creek,” sang the landrail or meadow-crake, apparently a quarter of a mile off.
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