Crossword clues for craw
craw
- Bird's stomach
- Bird pouch near the throat
- Where bad feelings stick
- Stick in one's ____
- Robin's stomach
- Metaphorical "sticking" place
- "That really stuck in my ___"
- Where something annoying might be stuck
- Where resented comments stick, metaphorically
- Where irritants stick?
- Stomach of an animal
- Sticks in one's ___ (really bugs)
- Sticking point for the unacceptable
- Stick in one's --- (rankle)
- Stick in one's ---
- Stick in one's ___ (cause resentment)
- Stick in one's ___ (be irritating)
- Stick in one's ___ (be an annoyance)
- Pouch near a bird's throat
- Pouch in some birds
- Pouch in a bird's esophagus
- Place where an insulting comment might "stick"
- Part of bird's gullet
- Metaphorical sticking point
- Metaphorical sticking place
- Irritating place for something to be stuck
- Insect's crop
- Insect crop
- Idiomatic sticking point
- Goose's gullet
- Gizzard or gullet
- Food crop?
- Dad or fish preceder
- Crop or cud
- Crop of birds
- Clichéd sticky spot
- Bird's maw
- Bird's belly
- Avian digestive system part
- A kind of fish
- "That sticks in my ___"
- Sticky place?
- Animal stomach
- Sticking point?
- Stick in one's ___ (rankle)
- Crop of a bird
- Avian food holder
- Bird crop
- Holder of bird food?
- Gullet
- Part of a bird's gullet
- Where something unpleasant sticks
- Esophageal pouch
- Bird's gullet
- Place where things get stuck
- 43-Across in one's ___
- Throat part
- Bird food holder
- Where annoying things stick
- A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- Pelican's crop
- Crow's crop
- Bird's crop
- Chickadee's crop
- Insect's receptacle
- Maw
- Stomach, in a "sticky" idiom
- Avian crop
- What disagreeable items often stick in
- Crop of unrefined cocaine going west
- Cold and uncooked crop
- Crop circles essentially not manufactured
- Bird's pouch for storing food
- Sticking point, in an idiom
- Sticking point, metaphorically
- Sticking place?
- Animal's stomach
- Colloquial sticking point
- Stick in one's __: cause resentment
- Bird feature
- Where something may stick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Craw \Craw\ (kr[add]), n. [Akin to D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen, Sw. kr[aum]fva craw, Dan. kro, and possibly to Gr. ???? (E. bronchus), or bro`chqos throat. [root]25. Cf. Crag neck.] (Zo["o]l.)
The crop of a bird.
The stomach of an animal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English *cræg "throat," from Proto-Germanic *krag- "throat" (cognates: Middle Dutch craghe "neck, throat," Old High German chrago, German Kragen "collar, neck"), of obscure origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) The stomach of an animal. 2 The crop of a bird. vb. (context archaic English) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry
WordNet
n. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: crop]
Wikipedia
Craw were an independent band from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. They belonged to the harder-edged branch of the math rock or post hardcore movement, in the same category as bands such as Colossamite, Keelhaul, Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, and Ruins.
Craw may refer to:
- Craw (band), a math rock band from Cleveland, Ohio
- Craw (surname), a surname (includes list)
- Crop (anatomy), or craw, an anatomical structure
- CRA-W (organization), the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
- CRAW (industrial certification), a Certified Robotic Arc Welder, per the American Welding Society (A.W.S.)
Craw is an English habitational name that arrived in Britain with Anglo-Saxon tribes. Residents of the village Cronkshaw in the county of Lancashire adopted Craw as their surname.
Usage examples of "craw".
He interrupted Red Davie to shake hands effusively, and to introduce Mr Craw.
Thomson, Margaret Pringle, Margaret Hamiltown, relict of James Pollwart, William Craw, Bessie Wicker, and Margaret Hamilton, relict of Thomas Mitchell, sadly tormented Borrowstounness and other parts of Linlithgowshire, in the seventeenth century.
Kneeling on the painful nonskid decking, Alan gave Craw a succinct count and saw him tick off his calls on a plastic sheet.
Clyve Wheat and Silas Craw sat at Burdale Ruffs table, soaked to their skins and dripping ale.
Had you and I, and all the other so-called worthy persons, bred at every pairing, would we not by now by laqs and craws have overswarmed the pitiful resources of the Age of Freeze?
But what sticks in my craw is that here we bust our behinds to make a city and then we present it to the pope, who already has so many.
He could hear harping in it and fiddle, the hollow drumbeat of a crowdy crawn and a breathy flute.
Felix didn’t play on stage yet—except for adding a bit of rhythm on the crowdy crawn towards the end of an evening.
Besides, it's not fair to keep the girls from having fun just because Alda Quimby and her bunch have got hair balls in their craws.
He was going to have to do something he hated, something that stuck in his craw like bad beef jerky.
We must have been in the closest competition, craws of years ago, equally matched rivals for supremacy.
Our species evolved together from that stage, craws of years ago, when it became impossible for either of us to continue providing the necessary variant stimuli from our own internal resources.
She said, “But if you mean you want to use that method to launch spacecraft, you'd need laqs and craws of them!
It was bad enough to be overshadowed by anyone, but what truly stuck in the Purple Lords' craws was to find themselves so outclassed, and with such apparent lack of effort, by the "mongrelized" Axemen.
He showed her buzzards in pens that were fed nothing but white bread for days to clean the carrion from their craws before they were butchered and eaten.