craw

• crag

Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Middle Dutch crāghe or Middle Low German crāghe (“collar, neck”), from Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Old Irish bráge (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”).

Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).

• IPA^(key): /kɹɔː/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː

craw (plural craws)

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

• crop
• gullet

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^[1]:

     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.

• WRAC

craw

1. Alternative form of crowe

From crawen (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Celtic *greup, from Proto-Indo-European *krus- (“crust”), see also Latin crusta (“crust”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀 (xruzdra, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रूड् (krūḍ, “thicken, make hard”).^[1]

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kraːu̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /krau̯/

craw m (plural crawiau)

1. a rejected piece of slate, often used for building fences in quarrying regions of north Wales
2. a bad person, a bad lot

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “craw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies