craw
See also: Craw
English
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Etymology
Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Middle Dutch crāghe or Middle Low German crāghe (“collar, neck”), from Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Old Irish bráge (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”).
Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).
Pronunciation
Noun
craw (plural craws)
Translations
Crop of a bird
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Verb
craw (third-person singular simple present craws, present participle crawing, simple past and past participle crawed)
- (archaic) To caw, crow.
- 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.
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Noun
craw
- Alternative form of crowe
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