craw

See also: Craw

English

Etymology

Akin to Middle Low German krage (“neck, collar”) (whence Danish krave and German Kragen (“collar”))

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹɔː/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

Noun

craw (plural craws)

  1. (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
  2. The crop of a bird.

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craw (third-person singular simple present craws, present participle crawing, simple past and past participle crawed)

  1. (archaic) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry
    • 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎:
      The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner.

Middle English

Noun

craw

  1. Alternative form of crowe
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