craw

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).

• IPA^(key): /kɹɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

craw (plural craws)

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

• crop
• gullet

• stick in one’s craw

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

1. (archaic) To caw, crow.
   • 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.

craw

1. Alternative form of crowe