crake
any of several short-billed rails, especially the corn crake.
Origin of crake
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How to use crake in a sentence
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.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantThen a nightingale began to give forth its long liquid gurgling; and a corn-crake churred in the young wheat.
The Dark Flower | John GalsworthyTwo sounds are and have been heard all night—the ceaseless call of the crake and the not less ceaseless song of the sedge-bird.
Poachers and Poaching | John WatsonIn the level meadow from among the tall grasses and white-flowering wild parsley a landrail called 'crake, crake,' ceaselessly.
Field and Hedgerow | Richard Jefferies
“Creek—creek,” sang the landrail or meadow-crake, apparently a quarter of a mile off.
Hollowdell Grange | George Manville Fenn
British Dictionary definitions for crake
/ (kreɪk) /
zoology any of several rails that occur in the Old World, such as the corncrake and the spotted crake
Origin of crake
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