English

Alternative forms

• have a crow to pluck
• have a crow to pick

Verb

have a crow to pull

1. (obsolete) To have a point of contention (with someone); to have a bone to pick.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.27:

     Philip, the King of Macedon, who had so many crowes to pul with the Romanes, […] resolved at last to seize upon al their children whom he had caused to be murthered, that so he might day by day one after another rid thw world of them, and so establish his safety.