Definition of "crake" []

• Any of several short-billed birds of the family Rallidae, such as the corncrake. (noun)

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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."
• "By the edge of the growing corn is heard, iterative and wearisome, the "crake," "crake" of the corn-crake."
• "Iffen yu downt gibs me noms now, I will kills dis cup crake dead."