crake/ˈkɹeɪk/crake means any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.crake is pronounced /ˈkɹeɪk/.EtymologyFrom Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.nounAny of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.A crack; a boast.verbTo cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.“How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to crake . Crake, crake, with all its might.”To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.“I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.”