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Sticking point?
Answer for the clue "Sticking point? ", 4 letters:
craw
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in 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
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
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.