Obs. rare. Also 6 keke, 7 keake, keek. [Imitative.] intr. To cackle.
1545. Ascham, Toxoph., II. (Arb.), 130. Theues on a night had stolne Iupiter, had a gouse not a kekede.
1598. [R. Carew], Herrings Tayle, A ij. Helpe sportfull Muse to tune my gander-keaking quill.
1621. J. Taylor (Water P.), Taylor’s Goose, Wks. (1630), I. 104/1. The sober Goose … did harshly keake and hisse.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., II. (1678), 42. The Geese … take care, that by their keeking and their noise, they do not expose themselves to the rapacity of Birds of prey.
