Crossword clues for corncrake
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corncrake \Corn"crake`\ (k[^o]rn"kr[=a]k`), n. (Zo["o]l.) A bird ( Crex crex or Crex pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.
Wiktionary
alt. A bird of the rail family, ''Crex crex'', that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter. n. A bird of the rail family, ''Crex crex'', that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter.
WordNet
n. common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields [syn: land rail, Crex crex]
Usage examples of "corncrake".
And out of the silver-grey fog of darkness came sounds vague and hoarse: a corncrake not far off, sound of a train like a sigh, and distant shouts of men.
Montagu of Denton, John inscribed the book instead to the country’s greatest actor, David Garrick, hoping that a suitably flattered Garrick would make the awkward corncrake into a star of the London stage.
From the dark meadows by the brook came the cry of a corncrake, its harsh note softened by distance.
He was one of those guys who are born in the corncrakes and the energy and the joy in him was so fierce that nothing could contain it.
The hedgerows between which his oxen plodded were white with hawthorn, the woods were hazed by bluebells while poppies blazed among the wheat, rye and barley and in the almost ripe fields of hay where the corncrakes were noisy.
Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have ceased their song, and only the moorhen's plaintive cry and the harsh croak of the corncrake stirs the awed hush around the couch of waters, where the dying day breathes out her last.