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.
Creak \Creak\, v. t. To produce a creaking sound with.
Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. --Shak.
Creak \Creak\ (kr[=e]k), n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking. --Roget.
Three workers heard the 40-foot-wide scoreboard creak and groan shortly before it collapsed, police Maj. J.J. Kelly said.
As we ambled through the stark landscape, the only sounds came from the creak of the leather saddle and the camel farting and panting.
As Ms. Johnson stands outside the Hammack house after winding up her chores there, the house begins to creak and sway.
The system responded heroically to the challenge of two wars and the introduction of the welfare state, but it began to creak in the 1960s and 1970s.
The lights might blink a bit. The teak floorboards creak.
Workers had just made cuts through another of the legs, according to witnesses, when the tower began to creak.