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noun any of several short-billed Old World rails
originFrom Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0