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Definition of Crakes
1. crake [n] - See also: crake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crakes
Literary usage of Crakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"(THE crakes.) Very large birds, with the legs and neck extremely long, the latter
of 17 vertebrae. Wings large, rather short. ..."
2. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"23), but the record is not mentioned in the third edition of the American
Ornithologists' Union Check-List. RAILS, crakes, GALLINULES AND COOTS. ..."
3. In the Hebrides by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1883)
"... Fish —Forbidden Meats—Drawing the Nets-Lump-Fish—Jelly-Fish—Barnacle Geese—Families
who claim Descent from Seal-Maidens or Mermen —Corn-crakes. ..."
4. In the Hebrides by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1883)
"... Fish —Forbidden Meats—Drawing the Nets-Lump-Fish—Jelly-Fish—Barnacle Geese—Families
who claim Descent from Seal-Maidens or Mermen —Corn-crakes. ..."
5. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"(THE crakes.) Very large birds, with the legs and neck extremely long, the latter
of 17 vertebrae. Wings large, rather short. ..."
6. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"23), but the record is not mentioned in the third edition of the American
Ornithologists' Union Check-List. RAILS, crakes, GALLINULES AND COOTS. ..."
7. In the Hebrides by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1883)
"... Fish —Forbidden Meats—Drawing the Nets-Lump-Fish—Jelly-Fish—Barnacle Geese—Families
who claim Descent from Seal-Maidens or Mermen —Corn-crakes. ..."
8. In the Hebrides by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1883)
"... Fish —Forbidden Meats—Drawing the Nets-Lump-Fish—Jelly-Fish—Barnacle Geese—Families
who claim Descent from Seal-Maidens or Mermen —Corn-crakes. ..."
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