crake
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of crake
1275–1325; Middle English < Old Norse krākr, krāki crow 1
Example Sentences
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All that is winged, even the grating corn crake, is painted with a mystical birder’s unworldly rose-colored pianistic glasses.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2021
For each lucky birder who saw the Cedar Beach corn crake, there are thousands of others who wish they had, myself included.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
On another hunt, the party shot a brace of crake, five pheasant and a pigeon.
From Forbes • Jan. 11, 2015
He says that birds such as spotted crake, which usually turn up from Africa and are attracted to large pools of water, did not show up last year.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2012
By the edge of the growing corn is heard, iterative and wearisome, the "crake," "crake" of the corn-crake.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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