Craw vs Scraw - What's the difference?
craw | scraw |
(archaic) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry
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, passage=The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner. }}
A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between craw and scraw
is that craw is (archaic) the stomach of an animal while scraw is a sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.As a verb craw
is (archaic) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry.craw
English
Synonyms
* crop * gulletDerived terms
* stick in one’s crawVerb
(en verb)citation