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Example sentences from the Web for corn crake

A Corn-crake had made a nest in the meadow late in the year, and at mowing time his Mate was still sitting on her eggs.
Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales|Leo Tolstoy
Why, there's that little son of a corn-crake, Flickers—when once he gets talkin' in a smokin' room nothing can hold him.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892|Various
The dew is rising from the roses, the corn-crake's call is heard among the grass, the morning breeze is coming from the sea.
Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series|August Strindberg
Somehow the Irish corn-crake has a bigger note and is much more in evidence than his English brother.
Peeps at Many Lands: Ireland|Katharine Tynan

Then a nightingale began to give forth its long liquid gurgling; and a corn-crake churred in the young wheat.
The Dark Flower|John Galsworthy

British Dictionary definitions for corn crake

corncrake

/ (ˈkɔːnˌkreɪk) /

noun

a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

单词	corn crake
释义	corn crake noun a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields. Also called land rail. Origin of corn crake First recorded in 1545–55 Words nearby corn crake corncob, corncob pipe, corn cockle, corn color, corn-cracker, corn crake, corncrib, corn dodger, corn dog, corn dolly, cornea Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for corn crake A Corn-crake had made a nest in the meadow late in the year, and at mowing time his Mate was still sitting on her eggs. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales\|Leo Tolstoy Why, there's that little son of a corn-crake, Flickers—when once he gets talkin' in a smokin' room nothing can hold him. Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892\|Various The dew is rising from the roses, the corn-crake's call is heard among the grass, the morning breeze is coming from the sea. Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series\|August Strindberg Somehow the Irish corn-crake has a bigger note and is much more in evidence than his English brother. Peeps at Many Lands: Ireland\|Katharine Tynan Then a nightingale began to give forth its long liquid gurgling; and a corn-crake churred in the young wheat. The Dark Flower\|John Galsworthy British Dictionary definitions for corn crake corncrake / (ˈkɔːnˌkreɪk) / noun a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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corn crake

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for corn crake

noun