Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several short-billed birds of the family Rallidae, such as the corncrake.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
crack . - noun A boast.
- To cry like a crake; utter the harsh cry of the corn-crake.
- noun A crow; a raven. Compare
night-crake . - noun A general name for the small rails with short bills shaped somewhat like that of the domestic hen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See
corncrake . - verb To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called
crake . - verb obsolete To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
- noun obsolete A boast. See
crack , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
birds , of the familyRallidae , that have short bills.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several short-billed Old World rails
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If so that’s pretty important because the Speckled crake is extremely rare and poorly known, with less than 20 specimens in museum collections.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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By the edge of the growing corn is heard, iterative and wearisome, the "crake," "crake" of the corn-crake.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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"That your voice was as unmusical as a corn crake with a bad cold, that your poems were funnier than Lewis Carroll --"
The Body Ricardo 2010
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Iffen yu downt gibs me noms now, I will kills dis cup crake dead.
Ur offering is grossly inadiquitz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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April 15th, 2009 at 7:40 am if you look at rating when terminator was on monday it had over 5 million vewiers when fox had the bright idear to move it to one of the worst night for tv friday it was lucky to crake the 3 million mark maby they whant it to get canceled
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Typical island introductions such as rats, dogs, and cats may be harming the endemic Andaman crake (Rallina canningi).
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Freshwater wetlands in the South-West support sizable populations of several wetland birds, including grey duck, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata and shoveler Anas rhynchotis, two species of shag Phalacrocorax spp. and marsh and spotless crake.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008
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Bird surveys have recorded 306 species, including black-hawk eagle Spizaetus tyrannus, ocellated crake Micropygia schomburgii, greater rhea Rhea americana, Brazilian merganser Mergus octocetaceus (CR) and dwarf tinamu Taoniscus nanus (VU).
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In the western portion the endemic rusty-flanked crake (Laterallus levraudi) and the northern helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi), common to other ecoregions, are vulnerable and endangered respectively.
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Alien species, such as rats, continue to devastate native species and are believed to been largely responsible for the extinction of the Kosrae crake (Porzana monasa) and the Kosrae starling (Aplonis corvina).
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