CREAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creaking mean? 

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

1. a squeaking sound

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A squeaking sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

creak; creaking

Context example:

the creak of the floorboards gave him away

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

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

creak (make a high-pitched, screeching noise)

 Context examples 

"This is indeed curious," said the creaking voice of Professor Summerlee.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have been deceived.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There were cries of men, and churn of sleds, the creaking of harnesses, and the eager whimpering of straining dogs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was a long pause, during which we held our breath, and then a very gentle creaking sound came to our ears.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I heard a gentle creaking as the window was very slowly opened.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An endless creaking was going on all about me, the woodwork and the fittings groaning and squeaking and complaining in a thousand keys.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At dawn Van Helsing hypnotised me; he says I answered "darkness, creaking wood and roaring water," so the river is changing as they ascend.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was strange to mark the hush; so that the lapping of the water, the straining of the sail, and the creaking of the timbers grew louder of a sudden upon the ear.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)