cronk

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Or only a bittern cronk, Then all was still Was it a night stampede Of a thousand head?

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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
  • 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!" —  The Complete Works of Whittier
  • 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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