Dictionaries › English

craw

Pronunciation: /kɹɔː/

The English word “craw” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The stomach of an animal.
  2. The crop of a bird.

verb

  1. To caw, crow.

Etymology

Late 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…

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “craw” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.