0 present participle of creak
1 When a door, floorboard, etc. creaks, it makes a long low sound when it moves or is moved:
The creaking of a door, the cracking of the tone produced by a badly handled bow on a string instrument are examples of vacillating sounds.
Institutions formed in one epoch could respond to fresh demands from new class forces only with much creaking of the joints.
On this track, moans combine with metallic, reverbed clicking and clattering, and gradually these give way to creaking and stranger vocalising.
While this does not make it an antique, it is nevertheless creaking a little given the pace of research in evolutionary biology and systematics - the primary subjects of this volume.
Such was the groaning and creaking.
It winds along, creaking, for two hours.
He said that statistics were like a rather creaking machine and were not always relevant to the problem being faced.
The principle that the users of the tunnel should pay for the burden of debt interest is obviously creaking loudly.
