DEFINITIONS CONTINUED VERB 3. to boast, brag; to gossip (obsolete except dialect) 4. to quaver hoarsely in singing; to speak hoarsely (dialect) 5. to shout or cry (dialect) 6. to whimper, or plaintively ask for a thing over and over again (dialect) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES for a crow or raven: apparently from Old Norse krâka from crow, krâkr m. raven (Norwegian kraake, Swedish kråka, Danish krage, crow) verb: Middle English craken, probably of imitative origin c 1320 - The Proces of the Seuyn Sages; see below From: Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries Edited by Henry Weber Volume III, 1810 The Process of the Seuyn Sages Tale XV. The Ravens Line 3893, P. 149 From: Ecclesiastical Memorials, Relating Chiefly to Religion,
and the Reformation of it, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, By John Strype, 1822 A Repository of Originals A Poem, pretended to be writ against the preachers; entitled, A Pore Help P. 336
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