1) Bird often seen in a meadow 2) Coot relative 3) Land rail 4) Rail 5) Rail runs through Dundee 6) Short-billed bird 7) Short-billed marsh bird 8) Short-billed rail 1) Boasting 2) Corncrake 3) Rail 
• (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake. • (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. • (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. • (n.) A boast. See Crack, n.
any of numerous marsh birds of the family Rallidae (order Gruiformes), generally any small rail (q.v.) in which the bill is short and conical. The ... [1 related articles]
Term for a small rail with a small bill.
Crake (krāk) transitive verb & i. [ See Crack .] 1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake . 2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [ Obsolete] « Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag. » Crake noun A boast. See Crack , noun [ Obsolete] Spenser. 
[n] - any of several short-billed Old World rails
noun any of several short-billed Old World rails
Any of several small birds of the family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, related to the corncrake
any of several short-billed rails, esp. the corn crake.