Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crake \Crake\ (kr[=a]k), v. t. & i. [See {Crack}.]
   1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

   2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]

            Each man may crake of that which was his own. --Mir.
                                                  for Mag.

Crake \Crake\, n.
   A boast. See {Crack}, n. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Crake \Crake\, n. [Cf. Icel. kr[=a]ka crow, kr[=a]kr raven, Sw.
   kr[*a]ka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crow}.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   Any species or rail of the genera {Crex} and {Porzana}; -- so
   called from its singular cry. See {Corncrake}.

Source : WordNet®

crake
     n : any of several short-billed Old World rails