Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRAKE

n.A boast. [See Crack. ]

 

CRAKE

n.The corn-crake, a migratory fowl, is a species of the rail, Rallus, found among grass, corn, broom or furze. Its cry is very singular, crek, crek, and is imitated by rubbing the blade of a knife on an indented bone, by which it may be decoyed into a net.

 

CRAKE-BERRY

n.A species of Empetrum or berry-bearing heath.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CRAKE

Crake (krk ), v. t. & i. Etym: [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.

 

CRAKE

CRAKE Crake, n.

 

Defn: A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

CRAKE

Crake, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. kr crow, kr raven, Sw. kr, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

 

CRAKEBERRY

CRAKEBERRY Crake "ber `ry (-br `r ), n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: See Crowberry.

 

CRAKER

CRAKER Crak "er (krk "r ), n.

 

Defn: One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs. ] Old Play.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

crake

crake |krāk kreɪk | ▶noun a bird of the rail family, esp. one with a short bill like the corncrake. [Family Rallidae: several genera, in particular Porzana, and numerous species. ] • the rasping cry of the corn crake. ORIGIN Middle English (originally denoting a crow or raven ): from Old Norse kráka, krákr, of imitative origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

crake

crake |kreɪk | ▶noun a bird of the rail family with a short bill, such as the corncrake. ●Family Rallidae: several genera, in particular Porzana, and numerous species. • the rasping cry of the corncrake. ORIGIN Middle English (originally denoting a crow or raven ): from Old Norse kráka, krákr, of imitative origin.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

crake

crake /kreɪk /名詞 C 〘鳥 〙クイナ .