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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creak \Creak\ (kr[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Creaked}
(kr[=e]kt); p. pr & vb n. {Creaking}.] [OE. creken prob.
of imitative origin; cf E. crack, and D. krieken to
crackle, chirp.]
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by
the friction of hard substances; as shoes creak.
The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. --Dryden.
Doors upon their hinges creaked. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creak \Creak\, v. t.
To produce a creaking sound with
Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creak \Creak\ (kr[=e]k), n.
The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
--Roget.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
creak
n : a squeaking sound; "the creak of the floorboards gave him
away" [syn: {creaking}]
v : make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door [syn: {squeak},
{screech}, {screak}, {skreak}, {skriech}, {skriegh}, {skreigh}]
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