craw
kind
archaic word
modern equivalent
crop; stomach; a crow's call
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
The first stomach of a bird, where food is stored; in one sentence it is the sound of crows calling. tree →
how it differs from today
No longer used in everyday speech. Today we say "crop" for a bird's food pouch. In the first sentence it imitates a crow's cry.
examples
- "Craw-craw! away-away from here!" cried the great black birds, and they flew away; but on the following day they came back, for they were at home here. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
- And these are the Twelve Leaders in the Person: two hands, two legs, two kidneys, spleen, liver, gall, rumen, abomasum, craw. [note 2: Identification of the latter four terms is very strange. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
primary record
crop
tests
rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «craw» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.