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crake

[ UK /kɹˈe‍ɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of several short-billed Old World rails

How To Use crake In A Sentence

  • Quail did not figure prominently in medieval menus in England, although they are regular summer visitors, familiar in hayfields and cornfields and sometimes called corncrakes for that reason.
  • When you hear a little crake noise, then you shall know that I am chilly and you shall make more fire.
  • The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover] Robert Burns How To Know Him
  • The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
  • The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
  • 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?
  • Binoculars are supplied so you can view the black teal, swans, dabchicks, ducks and even the spotless crake or elusive bittern.
  • Aweel, on this fair day, Margaret the maid, the sister of Hugh, had craked and craked to be seeing the beasts and the ferlies, and her mother, the Lady, and her father, the Laird, were sore against it. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • In the months that he and Moseley were nagging their bank managers, Craker was being headhunted for a different job.
  • Like other crakes the corncrake was more prone than most to colliding with overhead wires.
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