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  • noun Plural form of crake.

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Examples

  • The macaroni and cheese with black truffle ($14.95) makes a good small meal, as do the crab crakes ($16.95).

    Cutting the Cord, in the Adirondacks 2010

  • There are rare crakes and rails as well as common ones.

    KOTA BELUD BIRD SANCTUARY Glenda Larke 2007

  • There are rare crakes and rails as well as common ones.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Glenda Larke 2007

  • Highlights: the golden eagles riding the thermals on the Oa reserve, the hen harriers, and the corn crakes, the twites, the linnets and other half-forgotten farmland birds and their calls.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • If you go concrete you really need to know what you are doing, hair line crakes are normal but if the foundation substrate is poor, poured concrete can be problematic and can be a very expensive endevor.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

  • The crakes responded but would not show themselves so I spent some time becoming better acquainted with a

    10,000 Birds 2009

  • But it does creep in with a platter of crab crakes

    SaltShaker 2008

  • No crakes or rails to be seen at this time of day, ...

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • Many birds that are found only here or in few other places include ash-throated crakes (Porzana albicollis), plain-breasted ground-doves (Columbina minuta), red-shouldered macaws (Ara nobilis), sun parakeets (Aratinga solstitialis), green-rumped parrotlets (Forpus passerinus), scaled ground-cookoos (Neomorphus squamiger), and stygian owls (Asio stygius).

    Monte Alegre varzea 2008

  • The birds impressed, fourteen native species in their finery tho’ many more evade our eyes; those we saw pleased mightily – some rails and crakes we hadn’t seen before were on parade.

    Centennial Lakes Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

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