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# craw

«craw» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **crop; stomach; a crow's call** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/craw/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/craw/#x1)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/craw/#x2)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/craw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.