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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRAW, n. [G.] The crop or first stomach of fowls.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw, crop]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English crawe, from Old English *cræga; perhaps akin to Latin vorare to devour — more at voracious Date: 14th century 1. the crop of a bird or insect 2. the stomach especially of a lower animal

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Zool. the crop of a bird or insect. Phrases and idioms: stick in one's craw be unacceptable. Etymology: ME, rel. to MDu. craghe, MLG krage, MHG krage neck, throat

Webster's 1913 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.) (a) The crop of a bird. (b) The stomach of an animal.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Crop, first stomach (of a bird).

Moby Thesaurus

abdomen, abomasum, bay window, beerbelly, belly, breadbasket, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, first stomach, gizzard, gullet, gut, honeycomb stomach, kishkes, manyplies, maw, midriff, omasum, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence