Reverse Dictionary: CREAK

ADJECTIVES
1656 — STRIDENT making a harsh, grating or creaking noise; loud and harsh, shrill
1885 — SCREAKY → SKREAKY → SKREEKY → SKRIEKY creaky, squeaky → Amer. dial.
1892 — SCREECHETTY creaking, creaky → Eng. dial.

NOUNS
1632 — STRIDOR a harsh, high-pitched sound; a shrill grating or creaking noise
1820 — GIRG → JARG → JERG → JIRG a creaking noise → Sc.
1881 — NICKER a creak; a clatter, a rapping sound, as the crackling of wooden articles when disturbed → Sc.
1890 — NEESTER a creaking sound → Sc.
1898 — NEESTERIN a creaking noise; a squeaking → Sc.

VERBS
1000 — YERR to creak, to make a harsh noise, to roar, to rattle → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1440 — FRATCH to creak, as a cart → obs.
1513 — GEIG → GIG → GIKE to creak, to make a creaking noise → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1513 — GIRG → JARG to make a creaking noise, to grate, to jar, to vibrate; said of a door or gate → obs., chiefly Sc.
1583 — HARSH to creak; to give a harsh sound → obs.
1657 — CRAKE to creak, as the hinge of a door → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1838 — NEESTER → NEISTER to creak, to squeak, as a rusty hinge or new shoes → Sc.
1843 — SCREAK → SCREEK → SKREAK → SKREEK to creak, to squeak, to squeal; to grate → Amer. dial.
1853 — SCRINGE → SKRINGE to creak; to make a grinding, grating sound; to crackle, as ice when it gives to the tread → Ireland
1904 — SCRICELE to creak; to squeak → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCRIPET to creak, to grate, as the ungreased wheel of a barrow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — SCRATCH to creak → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1931 — NICKER to creak, to crack, to clatter, to make a clicking sound → Sc.