Слово "creak". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

There was no crashing of glass, only the resounding thud as the wall accepted the weight of the stacks now propped against it. He lay wide eyed on the pile of books. Somewhere in the distance there was a creaking. Langdon would have held his breath to listen, but he had none left to hold.

There were cries of men, and churn of sleds, the creaking of harnesses, and the eager whimpering of straining dogs.

[ Creaking ]

Eddie could hear the stairs creak protestingly under her.

The sky was a warmer blue than he had seen it that year, and suddenly the long, noisy evening at the Centre, the boring, exhausting games, the lectures, the creaking camaraderie oiled by gin, had seemed intolerable.

Inaudible consequently, were poor Miss Hepzibah's gusty sighs. Inaudible, the creaking joints of her stiffened knees, as she knelt down by the bedside. And inaudible, too, by mortal ear, but heard with all-comprehending love and pity in the furthest heaven, that almost agony of prayer—now whispered, now a groan, now a struggling silence—wherewith she besought the Divine assistance through the day!