crake

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

crake
    n 1: any of several short-billed Old World rails

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Crake \Crake\ (kr[=a]k), v. t. & i. [See {Crack}.]
   1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
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   2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]
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            Each man may crake of that which was his own. --Mir.
                                                  for Mag.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Crake \Crake\, n.
   A boast. See {Crack}, n. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Crake \Crake\, n. [Cf. Icel. kr[=a]ka crow, kr[=a]kr raven, Sw.
   kr[*a]ka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crow}.]
   (Zool.)
   Any species or rail of the genera {Crex} and {Porzana}; -- so
   called from its singular cry. See {Corncrake}.
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