craking

Verb (1)

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
   • How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to crake . Crake, crake, with all its might.1854 October, “MIDNIGHT IN JULY”, in The Kerry Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Antiquities, Polite Literature, Poetry, volume 1, number 10, page 159

Verb (2)

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

1. (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
   • I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.1526, The Hundred Merry Tales; Or, Shakespeare's Jest Book

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