Crake

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several short-billed birds of the family Rallidae, such as the corncrake.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several birds, of the family Rallidae, that have short bills.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
  • v. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
  • n. A boast. See crack, n.
  • n. Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See corncrake.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as crack.
  • n. A boast.
  • n. A crow; a raven. Compare night-crake.
  • n. A general name for the small rails with short bills shaped somewhat like that of the domestic hen.
  • To cry like a crake; utter the harsh cry of the corn-crake.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several short-billed Old World rails
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rail   
    Variant
    crack    corncrake   
    Hyponym
    crex crex    porzana porzana    corncrake    spotted crake    land rail   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    boast   
     
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