Crake vs Craye - What's the difference?
crake | craye |
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
* The Mirror for Magistrates
As nouns the difference between crake and craye
is that crake is any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills while craye is a type of vessel, which was notably used in Denmark and Sweden.As a verb crake
is to cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.crake
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Alternative forms
* CrakeEtymology 1
From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)Derived terms
* Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crakeVerb
(crak)Etymology 2
See crackVerb
(crak)- Each man may crake of that which was his own.
