craik

i. [CRAIK (1), s.] 1. To cry like a hen; to clock. "The cry was so ugly of elfs, apes, and owles, That geese and gaisling cryes and craiks ." Polwart: Watson's Coll., iii. 21-2. 2. To croak; to emit a hoarse sound. "A pyet, after alighting on a tree in his yeard, craiks as is usuall with them; he being at dinner, takes out his gun ard fires at her,."-Law: Memorials , p. 230. crail, s . [CREEL.]