coaxare

coaxare [CL] , to croak. 675 garrulitas ranarum crepitans ~at Aldh. Ep. 3; [rane] inde coaxantes †ademit [l. adeunt] regem, venerandi / causa Neckam DS II 629 (cf. id. NR II prol. p. 126: ~at rana); 1382 quamvis isti monachi coaxant cum ranis (Contra Religiosos 232) Mon. Francisc. I 599.