Crake

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A boast. ·see Crack, ·noun.

II. Crake ·vt & ·vi To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

III. Crake ·vt & ·vi To Boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

IV. Crake ·noun Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana;

— so called from its singular cry. ·see Corncrake.