crake : Idioms & Phrases

Index

spotted crake

  • noun Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes
    Porzana porzana.
WordNet

water crake

Wa"ter crake`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake. (c) The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
Webster 1913