Definition of Craking

1. crake [v] - See also: crake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Craking

craigs
craigslist
craigslisted
craigslisting
craigslists
craik
craisin
craisins
crake
crakeberries
crakeberry
craked
craker
crakers
crakes
craking (current term)
cram
cram full
cram school
cram schools
cram session
crambes
crambin
crambo
cramboes
crambos
cramdown
cramdowns
crame
crames

Literary usage of Craking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"I am at hand here prest, Put away tongue-shaking And this foolish craking. Let us try for the best: Cowards make speech apace ; Stripes prove the man : Have ..."

2. Thomas Hardy's Dorset by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1922)
"craking, complaining. " I, Anthony James Pye Molley, Can burn, take, sink, and destroy ; There's ... And that is, to stop the craking tongue of my wife. ..."

3. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun Printed on Parallel Pages from by Andrew, François Joseph Amours, John Thomas Tosbach Brown, George Neilson (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."

4. Scot. Text S. by Scottish Text Society (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."

5. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"I am at hand here prest, Put away tongue-shaking And this foolish craking. Let us try for the best: Cowards make speech apace ; Stripes prove the man : Have ..."

6. Thomas Hardy's Dorset by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1922)
"craking, complaining. " I, Anthony James Pye Molley, Can burn, take, sink, and destroy ; There's ... And that is, to stop the craking tongue of my wife. ..."

7. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun Printed on Parallel Pages from by Andrew, François Joseph Amours, John Thomas Tosbach Brown, George Neilson (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."

8. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays by Robert Dodsley, Thomas Amyot, Alexander Dyce, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1853)
"All the day long is he facing and craking"*" Of his great actes in fighting and fray making ... Facing and craking.~\ Impudently vaunting and boasting. ..."

9. Scot. Text S. by Scottish Text Society (1904)
"... Had nocht bene a ganare at maid Sa huge a craking and sic cry That all the Romanis ... sic craking maid That ..."

10. A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays by Robert Dodsley, Thomas Amyot, Alexander Dyce, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1853)
"All the day long is he facing and craking"*" Of his great actes in fighting and fray making ... Facing and craking.~\ Impudently vaunting and boasting. ..."

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