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crake

American

[kreyk] / kreɪk /

noun

any of several short-billed rails, especially the corn crake.

crake British

/ 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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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

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From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander

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