0 past simple and past participle of creak
1 When a door, floorboard, etc. creaks, it makes a long low sound when it moves or is moved:
The machinery might well have creaked and groaned, but printers and authors could still have felt intimidated by its operation.
Windmills - part of the landscape of most early modern towns - creaked as they turned and their canvas sails flapped.
Its machinery has creaked a great deal, but it has moved, and moved with effect.
They are simple improvements of a type that we never get around to—like mending the staircase that always creaked in grandad's day.
Let me admit that it has creaked in the past.
It has creaked in lots of respects and in a number of ways.
Our machine, however, has creaked in another place, where, perhaps, it would not be expected to creak.
The hinges of the case creaked.
