Crake
Crake (krāk) , verb, transitive and intransitive
[See Crack.]
1.
To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2.
To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obsolete]
Each man may crake of that which was his own.
Crake , noun
Crake , noun
[Compare Icelandic krāka crow, krākr raven, Swedish kråka, Danish krage; perh. of imitative origin. Compare Crow.]
(Zoology) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.