Creaking vbl. sb.

[f. CREAK v. + -ING¹.] The action of the verb CREAK: † a. of birds, etc.; esp. of geese. Obs.

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1575. Turberv., Faulconrie, 269. The creaking and crying that they [hawks] use in the mewe sometymes.

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1653. H. Cogan, Diod. Sic., 182. The creaking of the grashoppers.

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a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xiii. 106. Creaking of Geese.

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b. of things.

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1520. Burlesque Recipe, in Rel. Ant., I. 251. The krekynge of a cart-whele.

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1605. Shaks., Lear, III. iv. 97. The creaking of shooes.

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1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, ix. Then a gentle creaking of his door.

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