a corn-creak, a land-rail ; so called from its creaking note, naturally imitated by scratching on the teeth of a comb.
·vt To produce a creaking sound with. II. Creak ·noun The sound produced by anything that creaks; a...
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The straining noise made by timbers, cabin bulk-heads, and spars in rolling. ...
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