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- English Word Craie Definition See Crare.
- English Word Craig flounder Definition The pole flounder.
- English Word Crail Definition A creel or osier basket.
- English Word Crake Definition To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
- English Word Crake Definition To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
- English Word Crake Definition A boast. See Crack, n.
- English Word Crake Definition Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
- English Word Crakeberry Definition See Crowberry.
- English Word Craker Definition One who boasts; a braggart.
- English Word Cram Definition To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
- English Word Cram Definition To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
- English Word Cram Definition To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
- English Word Cram Definition To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
- English Word Cram Definition To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
- English Word Cram Definition The act of cramming.
- English Word Cram Definition Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
- English Word Cram Definition A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- English Word Crambo Definition A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.
- English Word Crambo Definition A word rhyming with another word.
- English Word Crammed Definition of Cram
- English Word Crammer Definition One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
- English Word Cramming Definition of Cram
- English Word Cramoisie Definition Alt. of Cramoisy
- English Word Cramoisy Definition Crimson.
- English Word Cramp Definition That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
- English Word Cramp Definition A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
- English Word Cramp Definition A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
- English Word Cramp Definition A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
- English Word Cramp Definition A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
- English Word Cramp Definition To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.