creak
kreek
- n a squeaking sound
the creak of the floorboards gave him away - v make a high-pitched, screeching noise
The door creaked when I opened it slowly
- Ponnudorai's parents were too poor to buy him a metronome: he learned his exquisite sense of timing by playing along to the creak of an old ceiling fan.
- Every strange creak in the night frightened her.
- The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as .