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craw

  [kraw]
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–noun
1. the crop of a bird or insect.
2. the stomach of an animal.
—Idiom
3. stick in one's craw, to cause considerable or abiding resentment; rankle: She said I was pompous, and that really stuck in my craw.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME crawe, prob. akin to crag 2
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crop

  [krop] noun, verb, cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop⋅ping.
–noun
1. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.
2. the yield of such produce for a particular season.
3. the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds.
4. a supply produced.
5. a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students.
6. the stock or handle of a whip.
7. Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.
8. Also called craw. Zoology.
a. a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
b. a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
9. the act of cropping.
10. a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.
11. a close-cropped hair style.
12. a head of hair so cut.
13. an entire tanned hide of an animal.
14. Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam.
–verb (used with object)
15. to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).
16. to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog.
17. to cut short.
18. to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.
19. Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
20. to cause to bear a crop or crops.
21. to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.
–verb (used without object)
22. to bear or yield a crop or crops.
23. to feed by cropping or grazing.
—Verb phrases
24. crop out,
a. Geology, Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.
b. to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.
25. crop up, to appear, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE: sprout, ear of corn, paunch, crown of a tree; c. G Kropf; see croup 2

Related forms:
cropless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. Crop, harvest, produce, yield refer to the return in food obtained from land at the end of a season of growth. Crop, the term common in agricultural and commercial use, denotes the amount produced at one cutting or for one particular season: the potato crop. Harvest denotes either the time of reaping and gathering, or the gathering, or that which is gathered: the season of harvest; to work in a harvest; a ripe harvest. Produce esp. denotes household vegetables: Produce from the fields and gardens was taken to market. Yield emphasizes what is given by the land in return for expenditure of time and labor: There was a heavy yield of grain this year.
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craw   (krô)   
n.  

  1. The crop of a bird or insect.

  2. The stomach of an animal.


[Middle English crawe.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

craw 
O.E. *cræg "throat," a Gmc. word of obscure origin.

crop 
O.E. cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." Meaning of "harvest product" is c.1300, probably through verb meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c.1213). The general meaning of "to cut off" is c.1420.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: crop
Pronunciation: 'kräp
Function: noun
: a pouched enlargement of the gullet of many birds that serves as a receptacle for food and forits preliminary maceration
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Idioms & Phrases

craw

see stick in one's craw.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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