CRAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crake mean? 

• CRAKE (noun)
  The noun CRAKE has 1 sense:

1. any of several short-billed Old World rails

  Familiarity information: CRAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several short-billed Old World rails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("crake" is a kind of...):

rail (any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crake"):

corncrake; Crex crex; land rail (common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields)

Porzana porzana; spotted crake (Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes)

 Context examples 

But let it be sword, lance, or bolt that strikes me down: for I should think it shame to die from an iron ball from the fire-crake or bombard or any such unsoldierly weapon, which is only fitted to scare babes with its foolish noise and smoke.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)