[ noun ] a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food <noun.animal>
Craw \Craw\ (kr[add]), n. [Akin to D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen, Sw. kr[aum]fva craw, Dan. kro, and possibly to Gr. ???? (E. bronchus), or bro`chqos throat. [root]25. Cf. {Crag} neck.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) The crop of a bird. (b) The stomach of an animal.
The ordeal of the 1979 hostage-taking at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the defiant nature of Iran's Islamic revolution still stick in the American craw.
Last year, she said, her husband, Albert, counted 115 grasshoppers in the craw of a turkey while dressing the bird.
British Gas has a nasty history of championing the status quo in the interests of British Gas. So it sticks in the craw to go along with the company.