craw

English

Etymology

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

Noun

craw (plural craws)

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

Synonyms

• crop
• gullet

Derived terms

• stick in one’s craw

Verb

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^[1]:

     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.