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Crake vs Clake - What's the difference?

crake | clake |

As nouns the difference between crake and clake

is that crake is while clake is (the barnacle goose).

crake

English

Alternative forms

* Crake

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
  • Derived terms
    * Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crake

    Verb

    (crak)
  • To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
  • Etymology 2

    See crack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A crack; a boast.
  • Verb

    (crak)
  • (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
  • * The Mirror for Magistrates
  • Each man may crake of that which was his own.

    Anagrams

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    clake

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (the barnacle goose)
  • (Webster 1913)