Crake vs Crase - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between crake and crase

is that crake is to boast; to speak loudly and boastfully while crase is to break in pieces; to crack.

is that crake is to cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake while crase is to break in pieces; to crack.

is any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

* Crake

From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)

(en noun)

Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

* Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crake

(crak)

To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

See crack

(en noun)

(obsolete) A crack; a boast.

(crak)

(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

* The Mirror for Magistrates

Each man may crake of that which was his own.

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(cras)

(obsolete) To break in pieces; to crack.

* Chaucer

The pot was crased .

(Webster 1913) ----