Middle English Dictionary Entry
craue n.
Entry Info
| Forms | craue n. Also crai. |
| Etymology | Prob. OE *cræg, *craga; cp. MDu. crage, craghe. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. cragge.
1.
(a) Neck; throat; (b) crop of a bird or fowl, craw.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)335 : Eure croweþ þi wrecche crei, Þat he ne swikeþ niȝt ne dai.
- a1400 Þo oure lord god (Mrg M 957)p.319 : Þo bouȝte pride here a cloþ of a red raye And gan to ben swyþe wroþ and beitte myd here craye.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)6695 : Some were smeten thorow the eye, Some to the brayn vn-to the crawe [rime: mawe].
b
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)4 Kings 6.25 : The fourthe part of a mesure clepid cabus of the crawe of culueris was seeld for fyue platis of siluer [WB(2) Gloss.(Cld): in Latyn it is seid of the drit of culuers; but drit is..takun here..for the throte, where cornes, etun of culueris, ben gaderid].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)101 : Crawe, or crowpe of a byrde, or oþer fowlys: Gabus, vesicula.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.145 : Oon of hem chese, Or that pellet that closith eueryhalf The chike or pyiouncrawe, hool either half.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)29b : A Crawe of A fowyll: vesicula.