craw (krɔː) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a less common word for crop |
| 2. | the stomach of an animal |
| 3. | informal stick in one's craw, stick in one's throat to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe |
| [C14: related to Middle High German krage, Middle Dutch crāghe neck, Icelandic kragi collar] | |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |