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crake

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɹeɪk/Part of speech nounSorted acekrStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. any of several short-billed Old World rails

Word origin

From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.

Used in a sentence

  • 'How very disagreeable!' said Annie; 'perhaps the birds took it in turn to crake.'
  • Of course, a corncrake, as its name suggests, likes to crake among the corn and hayfields, so that in fact you are unlikely ever to confuse it with the spotted crake, a bird to which dry land is almost anathema.
  • I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.

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