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- Crake - v. t. & i. - To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
- Crake - v. t. & i. - To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
- Crake - n. - A boast. See Crack, n.
- Crake - n. - Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
- Crakeberry - n. - See Crowberry.
- Craker - n. - One who boasts; a braggart.
- Water crake - - The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.
- Skitty - n. - A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen.
- Corncrake - n. - A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.