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单词 water crake
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water crake
2. A name of birds of the family Rallidæ, esp. the corncrake n. (also bean crake) or landrail ( Crex pratensis); also the water crake or spotted crake ( Porzana maruetta).
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > crex crex (corn-crake)
raila1450
quail?a1500
corncrakea1525
daker-hen1552
craker1698
corn-craker1703
landrail1766
crake1793
rye-crake1807
grass-drake1826
corn-rail1830
meadow crake1833
meadow gallinule1843
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat (Asloan) l. 782 in F. J. Amours Sc. Allit. Poems (1897) 74 The Corn Crake [a1525 Asloan (Craigie 1925) cornecrake; 1568 Bannatyne corncraik], the pundar at hand.
1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 171 Mourn, clamouring craiks at close o' day.
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 313 The young Crakes run as soon as they have burst the shell.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcix. 152 The brook shall..flood the haunts of hern and crake.
1863 Spring Lapl. 353 None of the rails or crakes appear to come so far north.
1879 R. Adamson Lays Leisure Hours 49 I hear, in gloamin grey The crake among the corn.
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water crake
water crake n. now rare (a) the European dipper, Cinclus cinclus (now historical); (b) a rail that lives in wet places; esp. one of the genus Porzana, as the spotted crake, P. porzana, or Baillon's crake, P. pusilla. [With sense (a) compare earlier water ouzel n.]
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Rallus > rallus aquaticus (water rail)
raila1450
coot1547
brook ouzel1611
bidcock1622
water rail1655
runner1668
water crake1676
bilcock1678
velvet runner1678
skiddy1787
fen-cock1880
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Cinclidae > cinclus aquaticus (dipper)
dippera1425
water ouzel1622
waterthrush1668
water crake1676
water blackbird1678
piet1804
water crow1804
water-piet1804
water cock1806
ducker1837
dipper-bird1894
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ i. 20 Merula Aquatica, the Water-Ouzel, or Water-Crake.
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Ouzel–Water,...Provincial, Water Crake.
1849 A. Soyer Mod. Housewife 286 Water-rail, spotted gallinule, or watercrake... The heart is most delicious eating.
1900 Canterbury Old & New 196 In the rail family we have..the striped rail, the water crake, the swamp crake, and the swamp hen.
2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields vi. 145 At Market Weighton..307 Dippers (‘water crakes’ and ‘water crows’ were the colloquial names in that part of northern England) were killed.
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