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Corncrake :: Corncrake (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

Weaser :: Weaser (n.) The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.

String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Shank :: Shank (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle..

Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..

Raking :: Raking (n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.

Drank :: Drank (n.) Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed..

Skirlcrake :: Skirlcrake (n.) The turnstone.

Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..

Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..

Canebrake :: Canebrake (n.) A thicket of canes.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine..

Strake :: Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak..

Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

Mallard :: Mallard (a.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

Rake-vein :: Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein..

Rakehelly :: Rakehelly (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.

Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..

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