craw
The crop of a birdThe crop of a bird.
» Yanni will probably craw out of jail.
Meaning
2 sensesThe crop of a bird.
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(archaic)The stomach of an animal.
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
Examples
2 sentencesYanni will probably craw out of jail.
It stuck in his craw that he was forced to step down from his position after 40 years.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Old Norse *kravi (“neck, cLate Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Old Norse *kravi (“neck, collar, gullet, crop of a bird”), of unclear origin (potentially cognate to crop), but historically a variation of kragi, the Norse analog of English crag. If craw and crag are cognates, then ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *kragô or Proto-West Germanic *kragō (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”).
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