Verb

(crav)

To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

I know I should diet more, but every afternoon I crave a soda so I have one.

* Edmund Gurney

His path is one that eminently craves weary walking.

To ask for earnestly.

I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end.

* Shakespeare

I crave your honour's pardon.

* Bible, Mark xv. 43

Joseph went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

Verb

(head)

* {{quote-book, 1599, chapter=The Fardle of Facions, author=William Waterman, title=Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, by=Johannes Boemus, editor= citation

, passage=Certaine of the Tartarres, professing the name of Christe, yet farre from his righteousnes: when their parentes waxe aged, to haste their death, crame them with gobins of fatte. }}