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craw  (krô)

n.

1. The crop of a bird or insect.

2. The stomach of an animal.

Idiom:

stick in (one's) craw

To cause one to feel abiding discontent and resentment.

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[Middle English crawe.]

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craw

Noun

1. the crop of a bird

2. the stomach of an animal

3. stick in one's craw Informal to be difficult for one to agree with or accept [Middle English]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

craw - a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food crop stomach, tum, tummy, breadbasket - an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion