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Creaking

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creak  (krk)
intr.v. creaked, creak·ing, creaks
1. To make a grating or squeaking sound.
2. To move with a creaking sound.
n.
A grating or squeaking sound.
[Middle English creken, croak, complain, of imitative origin.]
creaking·ly adv.
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Noun1.creaking - a squeaking sound; "the creak of the floorboards gave him away"
creak
noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
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Through the narrow opening, a creaking of the broad wooden stairs of the old house became audible.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through the wood, just as those fiery exhalations from the earth, that look like shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise, too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are passing.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
The reason was that I had become mercifully engrossed in one of the subsidiary problems: whether it would be better to drop from the window or to trust to the creaking stairs.
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