creak

The straining noise made by timbers, cabin bulk-heads, and spars in rolling.

← crazy × crear →

Creak
·vt To produce a creaking sound with. II. Creak ·noun The sound produced by anything that creaks; a...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
creak
a corn-creak, a land-rail ; so called from its creaking note, naturally imitated by scratching on th...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose