craw
See also: Craw
English
Etymology
Akin to Middle Low German krage (“neck, collar”) (whence Danish krave and German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga ("neck") (whence Dutch kraag). See 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.
Middle English
Noun
craw
- Alternative form of crowe