Meaning & use
Craw
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The crop or throat of a bird or insect, where food is stored before digestion.
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The falcon's craw bulged after it finished its meal.
That comment about his cooking has been sticking in his craw all week.
A note on using this word
Beyond its literal anatomical meaning, "craw" survives mainly in the idiom "stick in one's craw."
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