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Webster 1913 Edition

Craw

Craw

(kra̤)
,
Noun.
[Akin to D.
kraag
neck, collar, G.
kragen
, Sw.
kräfva
craw, Dan.
kro
, and possibly to Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] (E.
bronchus
), or
βρόχθοσ
throat. √25. Cf.
Crag
neck.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The crop of a bird.
(b)
The stomach of an animal.

Webster 1828 Edition

Craw

CRAW

,
Noun.
[G.] The crop or first stomach of fowls.

Definition 2024

craw

craw

English

Noun

craw ‎(plural craws)

  1. (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
  2. The 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)

  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.

Etymology

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

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