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Maw vs Craw - What's the difference?

maw | craw |

In archaic terms the difference between maw and craw

is that maw is the stomach, especially of an animal while craw is to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry.

As a verb craw is

to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry.

maw

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mawe, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) the stomach, especially of an animal
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost, Book X
    • So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw .
  • the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.
  • * 1818 , , Endymion
    • To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
  • any great, insatiable or perilous opening.
  • Appetite; inclination.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Unless you had more maw to do me good.

    Etymology 2

    By shortening of mother

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect, colloquial) Mother.

    • Etymology 3

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gull.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    craw

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
  • The crop of a bird.

    • Synonyms

    * crop * gullet

    Derived terms

    * stick in one’s craw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry
  • *{{quote-book, year=1828, author=David Macbeth Moir, title=The Life of Mansie Wauch, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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. }}