cronk

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Or only a bittern cronk,

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  1. The cry of the wild goose. Also honk (which see).
  2. Sick or feigned to be sick; in poor condition; in ‘bad trim,’ as a race-horse.
  3. Unsound; cranky; shaky; unstable; ‘crooked’: as, crank financial institutions.

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  • Or only a bittern cronk, Then all was still Was it a night stampede Of a thousand head? —  Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen
  • Or only a bittern cronk, —  Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen
  • Terms that are applicable to the various barnyard denizens, animal and fowl, include the following: bulls bellow and roar hens cackle, chuck, cows bellow, low, and moo chuckle, cluck, and gabble calves blat and bleat chicks cheep and peep asses and donkeys bray roosters cock, cock-a - goats bleat doodle-doo, and crow pigs grunt, squeal, and oink hen turkeys yelp horses neigh, nicker, snort, tom turkeys gobble whicker, and whinny geese cackle, clang, cronk, sheep baa, blat, and bleat gabble, hiss, and honk ducks quack and squawk Applicable terms for our feathered friends of the sky are just as numerous, if not more so. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
  • a flock of wild geese, streaming across the sky, in two great files, sending down, as it were, from the clouds, their loud and sonorous trumpetings, "Cronk, cronk, cronk!" —  Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
  • Good horses were just as expensive in those days as they were before the war, but we subalterns did not buy expensive horses; we picked up good jumpers that had gone cronk, and trusted to the vet., occasional firing, plenty of bandages, and not too hard work to keep them going. —  The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
 

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